NAME CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN - MetaCPAN source implementation VERSION version 0.10 SYNOPSIS # In the CPANPLUS shell CPAN Terminal> s conf no_update 1 CPAN Terminal> s conf source_engine CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN CPAN Terminal> s save DESCRIPTION CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN is a http://metacpan.org/ source implementation. It is highly experimental. Usually CPANPLUS retrieves the CPAN index files, extracts them and builds an in-memory index of every module listed on CPAN. As you can imagine, this is quite memory intensive. This source implementation does things slightly different. Instead of building an in-memory index, it queries the http://metacpan.org/ website for module/distribution/author information as and when it is required by CPANPLUS. CAVEATS There are some caveats. As shown in the "SYNOPSIS" you must set the CPANPLUS configuration variable no_update to a true value to use this source engine. This prevents CPANPLUS from attempting to update CPAN indexes. Attempting to do searches and getting a list of out of date modules in CPANPLUS are incredibly slow due the million or so web accesses that are incurred. SEE ALSO CPANPLUS CPANPLUS::Internals::Source http://metacpan.org/ AUTHOR Chris Williams COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Chris Williams and Jos Boumans. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.