Until now I haven't really been sure what interpretation to put on MetaCPAN favorites, so I haven't favorited anything. You won't be surprised to hear that the PR challenge prompted me to think about favorites, and your response to my interpretation is likely to be "well, yeah, duh!".
Read more ...Last year I released PAUSE::Packages, which provides a simple interface
for iterating over the latest non-developer release of all dists
currently on CPAN. It's based on the PAUSE file 02packages.details.txt,
which, by definition, doesn't contain developer releases.
But sometimes we (or, I, at least) want to know about all recent releases,
including developer releases.
This prompted me to create CPAN::Releases::Latest.
I've released the first version of CPAN::ReverseDependencies, which given the name of one CPAN distribution, will return a list of the names of other CPAN distributions that use it. This uses the MetaCPAN API, and is based on some code that I think I got from OALDERS.
Read more ...CPAN Tip lists all CPAN authors who have a Gittip account. More accurately it lists all CPAN authors who have linked their Gittip account with their MetaCPAN account, as described here.
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