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The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a software repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. [1] CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as ...
Perl Package Manager (PPM) is a Perl utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is installed on a system, and can install or upgrade that package from a local or remote host. [1] [2]
Repositories may be solely for particular programs, such as CPAN for the Perl programming language, or for an entire operating system. Operators of such repositories typically provide a package management system , tools intended to search for, install and otherwise manipulate software packages from the repositories.
Apart from creating, manipulating, loading, and installing binary PAR archives, the PAR module can be used to create standalone executables from complex applications using its PAR::Packer extension. Like many other Perl modules, PAR is primarily distributed via the CPAN where numerous extensions have been published. These include:
PAR::Repository and Perl package manager: binary package managers for Perl; PEAR: a programming library for PHP; pip: a package manager for Python and the PyPI programming library; RubyGems: a package manager and repository for Ruby; sbt: a build tool for Scala, uses Ivy for dependency management; yarn: an alternative to npm for Node.js and ...
Various non-standard but widely used Perl modules. These mostly relate to ease of installation of further extensions from the CPAN, but also include various tools that enhance the ability to install packages from other sources such as the Perl Archive Toolkit, the Perl package manager and the Perl Installation Program.
Tim Bunce took the lead and began specifying what would become the DBI module in 1994 upon the release of perl5 which eliminated the need for bespoke compilation in favor of dynamic, invocation time loading of libraries (modules). [2] As of 2010 the Perl community maintains DBI as a CPAN module in accordance with the open-source model.
Data::ParseBinary [1] is a CPAN module that originated as a port of Construct to the Perl programming language. (see its main POD document for its inspiration). Since the initial version, some parts of the original API have been deprecated.