Module list for authors

Michael G Schwern schwern at pobox.com
Mon Oct 29 17:20:51 CST 2001


On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 04:00:28PM +0000, Steve Rushe wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:39:02PM +0000, Russell Matbouli wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:48:10AM -0500, Steve Rushe wrote:
> > > So can anyone suggest a better alternative, or will I need to write 
> > > something to query CPAN for it?
> > 
> > IANACPANE, but 01modules.index.html seems to be what you want.
> 
> Nope, it also doesn't include all I want. My current quick and dirty
> test for usefulness is whether the file tells me about Marty's
> Crypt::Simple module. Both 01 and 02 don't mention it.

02packages.details.txt.gz is what you want, but sometimes the indexer
gets a little confused.  Just tell modules at perl.org about it and
they'll give it a kick in the ass.

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Perl6 Quality Assurance     <perl-qa at perl.org>	     Kwalitee Is Job One
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