1CPAN::Admin(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation CPAN::Admin(3)
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6 CPAN::Admin - A CPAN Shell for CPAN admins
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9 perl -MCPAN::Admin -e shell
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12 Note: this module is currently not maintained. If you need it and fix
13 it for your needs, please submit patches.
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16 CPAN::Admin is a subclass of CPAN that adds the commands "register" and
17 "modsearch" to the CPAN shell.
18 "register" calls "get" on the named module, assembles a couple of
20 informations (description, language), and calls Netscape with the
21 -remote argument so that a form is filled with all the assembled
22 informations and the registration can be performed with a single click.
23 If the command line has more than one argument, register does not run a
24 "get", instead it interprets the rest of the line as DSLI status,
25 description, and userid and sends them to netscape such that the form
26 is again mostly filled and can be edited or confirmed with a single
27 click. CPAN::Admin never performs the submission click for you, it is
28 only intended to fill in the form on PAUSE and leave the confirmation
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30 "modsearch" simply passes the arguments to the search engine for the
32 modules@perl.org mailing list at <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de> where all
33 registration requests are stored. It does so in the same way as
34 register, namely with the "netscape -remote" command.
35 An experimental feature has also been added, namely to color already
37 registered modules in listings. If you have Term::ANSIColor installed,
38 the u, r, and m commands will show already registered modules in green.
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41 URI::Escape, a browser available in the path, the browser must
42 understand the -remote switch (as far as I know, this is only available
43 on UNIX); coloring of registered modules is only available if
44 Term::ANSIColor is installed.
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47 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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