This is the reason why I have:

$ cat ~/.cpan/prefs/PERLANCAR.yml
---
comment: "We need only one CPAN"
match:
    distribution: "^PERLANCAR/"
disabled: 1
[download]

Not that I don't value his work and contributions, but I don't want to litter my system with a duplicate of every module already on CPAN.

I agree that there is no problem communicating with them. Nice person indeed!

Is perlancar an individual or a team? How is it possible for an individual to create and publish 1000 quality CPAN distributions? Anyone know the backstory?

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Hello eyepopslikeamosquito

perlancar is really perlancar and yes they are an individual and used to lurk here and is a nice guy. Not 1000 distributions: 2541!

Maybe he is playing Risk with CPAN :)

In their blog we read: I’ve also released way too many CPAN modules, because it is so much fun :)

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

G'day 👁️🍾👍🦟,

I have seen posts by (PerlMonks monk) perlancar on many occasions; I had always assumed this was the same person as (CPAN author) PERLANCAR.

Following the PERLANCAR link, I see perlancar.wordpress.com/ amongst the contact information.

Following that link and switching to the ABOUT tab, I see:

"... I've also released way too many CPAN modules ..."
... and a couple of paragraphs later ...
"... perlmonks ..."

The "CPAN modules" link → CPAN author PERLANCAR
The "perlmonks" link → PerlMonks monk perlancar

It would seem that my assumption was correct.

— Ken

kcott, further to the amazing dependency graph you mentioned in the root node, I noticed a similarly amazing MapOfCpan of perlancar's 2541 distributions.

Don't let $work see he's "available for telecommute and part-time work" ... they might make a "management decision" to hire perlancar part-time to replace their entire IT department. :)

Finally, I see that in Indonesian the root word is "lancar" meaning smooth/fluent (similar to German, where the root word for smooth/fluent is LanX :).

Updated: fixed a couple of typos.

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My analysis is that the author has never seen a wheel he didn't want to reinvent, rather than just contributing improvements to existing modules. I gather many people have tried to persuade him to change strategy.

Thanks for this. It might be an accidental homage to the archetypal Acme::Mom::Yours.