http://search.cpan.org/src/SBURKE/Pod-Simple-0.97/ChangeLog * Rewrote Pod::Simple::Pullparser's get_title, and added get_version, get_author, and get_description. Documented them. Archive::Any's is_impolite/is_naughty Signature checker Version checker. valid META.yaml POD errors count of blank lines (so it doesn't count as code) did it unpack into its own directory If contains XS hassle factor (the more things depend on it, the less hassle) ... and then you can figure out how much total hassle it would be to install a particular module (also installed modules, core versions) debian / gentoo packaged: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/dev-perl/index.xml http://www.freebsd.org/ports/perl5.html http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Linux/ http://www.openbsd.org/3.2_packages/i386.html http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/ http://packages.debian.org/testing/interpreters/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/