A map of the CPAN Ecosystem
I'm making a map of the CPAN Ecosystem for Programming Perl:
It's just something I threw together so the O'Reilly people could make a nice looking diagram. I'm a bit fuzzy on some of the services pulling either from the CPAN master, a mirror, or something else.
I left a lot out; I only have a page so large and I don't cover other things in the CPAN chapter.
I'm the author of Mastering Perl, and the co-author of Learning Perl (6th Edition), Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl (4th Edition) and Effective Perl Programming (2nd Edition).
Could you explain what the colours of the lines mean?
Very nice.
Just the "clients" seems a bit minimalist IMHO, because if may be from cpan client(s), to software distributors and operative system vendors, and should join finally again with the "user".
Very nice. I am not sure if you plan to do so but it might be nice to include the downstream vendors (Linux distributors, ActiveState (ppm)) etc.
Maybe I am just repeating what poisonbit wrote.