I'd like to mirror a hierarchy of Perl modules from CPAN: everything in ExtUtils:: but nothing else. Like a mini-cpan but not. Minicpan provides for exclusion of modules matching a regex but afaict provides no way to say "exclude everything except this".

Does anyone have knowledge of an existing script for something like this?
Thanks for your attention to this rather odd query.

Nov 08, 2024 at 20:55 UTC

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In reply to Mirroring CPAN by inclusion declaration rather than by exclusion by Intrepid

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