July2009Meeting

CPAN and Core Q&A

speaker: anyone and everyone

Possible topics:

• configuring your CPAN/CPANPLUS client
• what makes a module
• what happens when you install a module (where does stuff go?)
• what happens when you load a module
• how to make a distribution
• how distributions get on the CPAN (PAUSE)
• how distributions get found by the CPAN client
• what a distribution contains, metadata

HDP will talk a bit about CPAN infrastructure. Jonathan and other attendees from last week's code sprint will share some of what they learned about hacking the perl 5 core.

Bring your own questions (and maybe some answers.)