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Does anyone know why http://cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html is so far
out of date?

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On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 05:33:58 -0500,
Eric J. Roode <> wrote:
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> (Sam Holden) wrote in
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>> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:18:41 -0500,
>> Eric J. Roode <> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know why http://cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html is
>>> so far out of date?
>>>
>>> $Revision: 3.112 $ $Date: 2002/08/27 23:28:18 $ -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
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>> Because no modules have been added/removed from core since then???
>
>No... the module list contains far more modules than just core modules,
>or modules that are included with Perl distributions.
>
>It was my understanding that the module list contains all modules
>that have an officially registered namespace, but maybe I have
>that wrong.

I'm not sure why this particular list is behind, but CPAN.pm
uses $CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz and
$CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz, which are regularly
updated.

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