Improving the CPAN experience (a GSoC summer tale)
What will MetaCPAN offer that other services don’t?
- Instant availability (new uploads are indexed within a minute)
- Personalisation - “follow your favourites”
- Searchable metadata
- Mashup of other CPAN related services
- Unified (REST) API
- Back-end for Android/iPhone apps, command line tools etc.
- MetaCPAN.local for companies
- Includes BackPAN as well
- Open-source and free