CPAN on CD or DVD

[perlcapt]

I'm about to head out to sea for a few months. No Internet, but I do have Linux and Perl (obviously). What I don't have is CPAN. Is there a set of CDs of a CPAN snapshot? Kinda like what came in the Perl Toolbox, I believe.

[itub]

I don't know if anyone distributes them, but you can create your own. Read http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html ; the code discussed there was later turned into the CPAN::Mini module.

This doesn't create a full mirror, but it fits in one CD and usually has everything you need.

[samtregar]

I wanted to include one with Writing Perl Modules for CPAN. We ended up not doing it for two reasons. First, it would have driven the price of the book up . Second, there's no way to do it legally without some risk. Most modules on CPAN come with a licence which permits commercial redistribution, but some don't. In fact, some come with no licence at all!

-sam

[Anonymous Monk]

cpan cd