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CPAN - A big enough lever to install the world

By Hans Dieter Pearcey (‎confound‎) from pgh.pm
Date: Monday, June 22, 2009 01:00 PM
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
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Tags: cpan maintenance

CPAN is a huge source of power for Perl programmers. Various dangers can, like Kryptonite, drain this power from you. "I'd like to use this module, but my sysadmin won't install anything that isn't in the OS package manager." Does this sound like you? Do not give in! Learn how to tame your operations staff using such techniques as

* CPAN Distroprefs
* cpan2dist, PAR, local::lib
* CPAN::Mini
* and more!

• Josh ben Jore (‎diotalevi‎)
• Ricardo Signes (‎rjbs‎)
• Kevin Falcone (‎jibsheet‎)
• Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (‎miyagawa‎)
• Nicholas Perez (‎nperez‎)
• Hans Dieter Pearcey (‎confound‎)
• Olaf Alders (‎oalders‎)
• Adam Foxson (‎Fhoxh‎)
• Greg Alheid
• Michael Aquilina (‎aquilina‎)
• Jonathan Swartz
• Chris Nehren (‎apeiron‎)
• Joakim Lagerqvist
• Andrew Walker (‎Andy‎)
• Duane Brown (‎duaneb‎)
• Jesse Luehrs (‎doy‎)
• Greg Foster
• splitbit
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• Arthur Schmidt (‎fREW‎)
• Geoffrey Darling (‎Geoff‎)
• Darian Patrick (‎dapatrick‎)
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• George Hartzell
• J. Nick Koston (‎bdraco‎)