* CPAN Testers Reports co-ordinates and collects testing results for all CPAN uploads on various platforms.

* CPAN Testers Statistics provides statistical analysis and monitoring of the CPAN Testing infrastructure.

* CPAN Testers Wiki contains useful help and advice for getting started as a smoke tester, as well as planning for CPAN Testers 2. 0

* CPAN Testers Development contains the links to all the supporting tools, data and source that are used to maintain the CPAN Testers infrastructure.

The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License ( version 1. 0 ), a software license used for certain free and open source software packages, most notably the standard Perl implementation and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License ( GPL ).

Files on the CPAN are referred to as distributions.

Distributions on the CPAN are divided into 24 broad chapters based on their purpose, such as Internationalization and Locale ; Archiving, Compression, And Conversion ; and Mail and Usenet News.

Other CPAN search engines that have been set up are:

* CPAN :: Forum is a discussion forum where threads are classified by CPAN distribution

The PHP language has PECL and PEAR, Python has a PyPI ( Python Package Index ) repository, Ruby has RubyGems, Lua has LuaRocks, Haskell has Hackage and an associated installer / make clone cabal ; but none of these are as large as the CPAN.

Beyond April Fools ', however, some of the distributions on the CPAN are jokes in themselves.

** Perl ( PDL ), python and Haskell interfaces to levmar are available: see PDL :: Fit :: Levmar or CPAN, PyLevmar and HackageDB levmar.

Other examples are for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network ( CPAN ), which is a repository for Perl libraries ( known as modules ) that are not part of the core Perl distribution.

* There are numerous perl implementations on CPAN

CPAN. pm is mainly an interactive shell which can be used to search for, download, and install distributions.

The Perl community has a sizable library of distributions available for search and download via CPAN.

With thousands of distributions, CPAN needs to be structured to be useful.

CPAN module distributions usually have names in the form of CGI-Application-3. 1 ( where the :: used in the module's name has been replaced with a dash, and the version number has been appended to the name ), but this is only a convention ; many prominent distributions break the convention, especially those that contain multiple modules.

The most popular and official is search. cpan. org, which includes textual search, a browsable index of modules, and extracted copies of all distributions currently on the CPAN.

* CPANTS, the CPAN Testing Service, evaluates distributions automatically for quality assurance metrics of varying usefulness and assigns them a " kwalitee " rating.

Authors can upload new distributions to the CPAN through the Perl Authors Upload Server ( PAUSE ).

The CPAN has grown so large and comprehensive over the years that many people learning Perl seem to elevate it to a sort of mythical status, and express surprise when they begin to encounter topics for which a CPAN module doesn't exist already.

** The Artistic License ( the original Artistic License 1. 0, the one which is still used by Perl and CPAN )

CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of over 100, 000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it.

Most software on CPAN is free and open source software.

There is no formal bug tracking system, but there is a third-party bug tracking system that CPAN designated as the suggested official method of reporting issues with modules.

CPAN has no revision control system, although the source for the modules is often stored on GitHub.

Also, the complete history of the CPAN and all its modules is available as the GitPAN project, allowing to easily see the complete history for all the modules and for easy maintenance of forks.

CPAN is also used to distribute new versions of Perl, as well as related projects, such as Parrot.

The CPAN is an important resource for the professional Perl programmer.

With over 23, 000 modules ( containing 20, 000, 000 lines of code ) as of July 2011, the CPAN can save programmers weeks of time, and large Perl programs often make use of dozens of modules.

Finally, the natural hierarchy of Perl module names ( such as " Apache :: DBI " or " Lingua :: EN :: Inflect ") can sometimes be used to browse modules in the CPAN.

The heart of CPAN is its worldwide network of more than 260 mirrors in more than 60 countries.

Most mirrors update themselves hourly, daily or bidaily from the CPAN master site.

For more information on CPAN mirrors, see mirrors. cpan. org.

Several search engines have been written to help Perl programmers sort through the CPAN.

Testers using a selection of music have found that compressed files are about 40 % to 60 % the size of the originals depending on the kind of music, similar to other lossless formats.

Testers are allowed no more than two substitutions in any FSIQ test, or no more than one per index.

Digital Eel game testers are referred to as the Fearless Testers in the game credits.

* Testers This is a closed group for people that want to regularly test features of CFEclipse.

The magazine was notable for its " Family Testers ", who were sent products to review.