http://ratings.cpan.org doesn't use SSL so neither do I.

Most of the stuff in this module are already core in perl5. The additions are AppConfig::Std which makes being a perl-script with embedded documentation exceedingly nice (and configuration, etc). It also lets me piggy-back on cpan-upload's .pause file which makes the entire process even easier. I also avoided reams of plumbing work dealing with HTML parsing and the like by using WWW::Mechanize. I'm not sure what additional modules you thought were excessive but getting those two in makes it Just Right.

I have no idea what in the POD would lead you to think I was going to examine site_perl.

No, I said the description implies reading site_perl; which seems like a good feature to add since it's not there; the POD then clarifies that this not the case.

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I'm confused. The POD is a copy of the description. I wrote it once, made a copy and altered the markup from POD to HTML. What part of the description implies it reads site_perl?

I don't know of any good way to do this other than oh... parse all the perl in site_perl and use pause-like techniques to find the packages. Yeah, ok. Maybe I do know how to do this. Neat feature suggestion!