Re^3: CPAN and RAA

A list of links to projects isn't very similar to CPAN at all. CPAN is a distributed archive network with sophisticated automatic indexing, which is both more useful and much more complicated than a simple list of links. There's a good reason that no other language has anything close to the size and scope of CPAN - it's a heck of a lot of work to create and maintain! Worse, it requires a massive social effort to get everyone to actually use the same system.

-sam

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Re^4: CPAN and RAA by Fletch (Bishop) on May 16, 2006 at 19:36 UTC
True, to be pedantic (and I'm not one to shirk from pedantry :) functionally it's more akin to Freshmeat than CPAN. In purpose it's similar to CPAN in that it provides a single index point. And yes, it's only a rough parallel.	[reply]