On CPAN (which is just a big FTP site), there is no /dist or /<author> directories. There is a /modules directory and an /authors directory, the latter of which is broken down into various directories based on the letters in the author name. The files all live in the same place, but appear to live in many places due to symlinks.

Perhaps you mean CPAN Search, which is a web interface to CPAN. As a web interface, it can create any URL it likes and map it to anywhere it likes. The /dist URLs are stable for a module name regardless of the latest version (e.g. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Netscape-Bookmarks/), and the /<author> URLs map to a particular distribution version, (e.g. http://search.cpan.org/~bdfoy/Netscape-Bookmarks-1.91/).

Do you have examples where a particular module has a /dist URL but not a corresponding /<author>/ URL, or vice versa?

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In reply to Re: CPAN 'dist' question by brian_d_foy
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