Talk:CPAN

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CPANPLUS is expected to replace CPAN.pm in the core distribution in Perl 5.10

Replace would suggest that CPAN.pm is being removed from the core. This is not happening. A better wording might be something like "CPANPLUS will be added to the core distribution of Perl 5.10 as an alternative to CPAN.pm" (The 'expected' is probably redundant given that CPANPLUS is now in the most recent development versions.)

What year was CPAN set up?
There does not appear to be any historical information such as who set up CPAN, and when. - 18 August 2015


 * 1995 or thereabouts http://cpan.io/ref/cpan/history.html Mesh22 (talk) 08:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Unclear citation format, cleared
Wondering about the notice template at the top of the article. Three of the four citations were in a good format, I think, and I just fixed the fourth one. (Although it seems to link to a message board about PERL -- definitely a sub-par source.) So, if it's okay, I'm going to remove the warning template. - Screwdryver (talk) 12:37, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Adam Kennedy
The inclusion of Adam Kennedy's bio on this page seems strange? At one point he made significant contributions to CPAN, but he hasn't worked in this space in years, and it doesn't seem that he is defined by CPAN. A mention that he was once an active administrator of CPAN might make sense (although there are lots of other admins), but the rest doesn't seem relevant. 68.199.173.193 (talk) 08:05, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * The bio was added as a result of this AfD, which resulted in the merge of the independent article Adam Kennedy (programmer) to this one. The merged bio needs to be significantly trimmed, of course, as this article is not about Adam Kennedy. Mind  matrix  13:23, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
 * It's a typically wikipedian bullshit compromise. The question should be simple: Is Kennedy notable? --84.189.84.17 (talk) 12:54, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That question is relevant for an independent article about Kennedy. For this article, the questions should be - is Kennedy notable to this subject? I don't think so, though as 68.* said, perhaps in a section about all admins. His biography doesn't belong here, at any rate, and the merge result of the AfD was probably the wrong result. I'm going to remove the biography. Mind  matrix  22:13, 10 January 2022 (UTC)