<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="card1" title="CPAN - Page 7 - Wikipedia">
<p>
<a accesskey="1" href="page.php?w=CPAN&amp;p=6">1.Previous</a><br />
<a accesskey="3" href="page.php?w=CPAN&amp;p=8">3.Next</a>
</p>
<p>the modules and for easy maintenance of forks. CPAN is also used to distribute new versions of Perl, as well as related projects, such as <a href="page.php?w=Parrot_virtual_machine">Parrot</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Raku_%28programming_language%29">Raku</a>.</p>

<p><big>Structure</big></p>
<p>Files on the CPAN are referred to as distributions. A distribution may consist of one or more modules, documentation files, or programs packaged in a common archiving format, such as a <a href="page.php?w=gzip">gzip</a>ped <a href="page.php?w=tar_file_format">tar</a></p><p>
<a accesskey="1" href="page.php?w=CPAN&amp;p=6">1.Previous</a><br />
<a accesskey="3" href="page.php?w=CPAN&amp;p=8">3.Next</a>
</p>

<do type="prev" label="Search">
        <go href="search.wml"/>
</do>

</card>
</wml>
