CPAN release alerts

tbusch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: CPAN release alerts by CountZero (Bishop) on Feb 14, 2007 at 20:35 UTC
Ask and thou shalt be given: Notification Service of new CPAN modules. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN release alerts by tbusch (Sexton) on Feb 14, 2007 at 20:51 UTC
excellent. thanks.	[reply]
Re: CPAN release alerts by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 14, 2007 at 20:03 UTC
Not email, but it'd be trivial to scrape the CPAN uploads feed and highlight/filter for any modules of interest.	[reply]
Re: CPAN release alerts by grinder (Bishop) on Feb 14, 2007 at 20:08 UTC
The RSS feed, as pointed out by Fletch, is the way to go. Note that uploads are in terms of distributions, not modules (a distribution contains one or more modules). To find out which distribution holds the module you're insterest in, have a look at `/modules/01modules*` (adjust to your local mirror). There are a couple of modules (heh) written that help you deal with the finer details of working with these files. • another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl	[reply]