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CPAN Statistics

Content

CPAN Numbers

Authors

CountNotes
13192Total registered PAUSE accounts
7816Active Authors - have uploaded at least one distribution
5376Inactive Authors - have uploaded no distributions

Distributions

CountNotes
49178Total Unique Distributions on CPAN & BACKPAN
11644Total Unique Distributions on CPAN
37534Total Unique Distributions deleted from CPAN (i.e. on BACKPAN ONLY)
411392Total Distribution Releases on CPAN & BACKPAN
60244Total Distribution Releases on CPAN
351148Total Distribution Releases deleted from CPAN (i.e. on BACKPAN ONLY)

Directory Sizes

SizeNotes
128KCurrent size of CPAN
4.0KCurrent Size of BACKPAN

CPAN Milestones

Distributions

CountTimestampPAUSEDistribution-Version
50002002-10-06 09:25:46JQUELINLanguage-Ook-0.01
100002005-03-20 01:43:08DPAVLINFuse-0.05
150002007-06-14 21:00:59PEVANSXML-Filter-Conditional-0.01
200002009-04-25 03:53:18AWWAIIDWWW-HtmlUnit-0.04
250002011-01-19 03:31:29BURAKLingua-TR-ASCII-0.10
300002012-10-19 04:00:36AANOAAHubot-Scripts-Bundle-0.0.1
350002014-07-29 10:32:48HEIKOScalar-RefType-0.01
400002016-07-29 09:40:00SHARDIWALDancer2-Plugin-EncryptID-0.01
450002019-10-20 00:45:00PERLANCARString-Elide-Tiny-0.001
496102024-03-19 00:05:05PERLANCARData-Dump-SkipObjects-0.001

Uploads

CountTimestampPAUSEDistribution-Version
100002000-11-27 11:45:01GKEBusiness-Cashcow-0.06
200002002-07-28 20:40:31DAVECROSSTie-Hash-Regex-0.08
300002003-09-04 14:44:41NITRAMTree-FP-0.01
400002004-08-09 11:59:24JHIVERPetal-2.13
500002005-07-05 00:19:41LBROCARDParse-CPAN-Packages-2.25
600002006-04-21 20:47:58MBARBONAlien-wxWidgets-0.05
700002007-02-14 11:13:50BINGOSPOE-Component-AI-MegaHAL-1.05
800002007-10-29 17:57:47DCANTRELLXML-Tiny-1.09
900002008-05-19 20:48:52MBARBONWx-0.83
1000002008-12-09 14:33:26IFUSCHINIApache2-WURFLFilter-0.54
1100002009-06-10 23:55:12MARTJSON-Streaming-Writer-0.02
1200002009-11-29 19:20:59DEXTERException-Warning-0.0401
1300002010-05-14 16:22:38DRUOSOMooseX-TransactionalMethods-0.006
1400002010-11-03 10:52:09AWNCORPDancer-Plugin-ORMesque-1.103070
1500002011-04-11 06:03:40CVEGAGeometry-Formula-0.02
1600002011-10-05 12:25:38GPHATNet-Kestrel-0.05
1700002012-03-25 03:46:01ANDREFSDist-Zilla-MintingProfile-Author-Andrefs-0.01_10
1800002012-09-06 11:57:19AMDTask-Tapper-0.001
1900002013-02-13 17:47:19SEBAAsynchat-0.01
2000002013-07-04 07:27:55SULLRNet-PcapWriter-0.710_2
2100002013-11-25 15:48:31JOHANLDevel-PerlySense-0.0210
2200002014-04-28 15:15:29WOLLMERSAproJo-0.004
2300002014-09-01 15:09:39JONASBNBusiness-Tax-VAT-1.06
2400002015-01-09 19:26:36PEVANSNet-Async-Matrix-0.14
2500002015-06-07 03:00:00PERLANCARDesktop-Detect-0.04
2600002015-11-25 12:31:11AUDREYTPlack-Middleware-SizeLimit-0.08
2700002016-05-05 01:19:13NKUITSEWWW-Lk4-0.10
2800002016-11-22 13:09:00BOWMANBSData-Rmap-0.65
2900002017-06-14 06:30:32WBRASWELLParse-Eyapp-1.2
3000002018-02-06 01:26:00XXFELIXXXApp-ShellCheckWiki-0.03
3100002018-09-24 16:39:00PLICEASETest-Script-1.24_01
3200002019-05-24 17:35:20PERLMAXMPV-Simple-0.62
3300002019-12-23 12:45:45JLCOOPERDBD-Mock-1.54
3400002020-05-30 04:02:00PERLANCARApp-MediaInfo-0.125
3500002020-12-08 13:01:53MOOCOWDDC-XS-0.26
3600002021-05-31 08:04:43GENEMIDI-Bassline-Walk-0.0207
3700002022-01-30 01:22:00TURNERJWTk-HMListbox-4.01
3800002022-09-30 21:07:39OLIVERApp-Netdisco-2.057006
3900002023-05-18 10:16:07JDEGUESTHTML-Object-v0.2.6
4000002023-11-16 13:59:30GNUSTAVOGit-Hooks-3.6.0
4100002024-02-28 14:05:05JGNILocale-CLDR-Locales-Wa-v0.44.1-TRIAL
4113922024-03-19 03:16:58INGENICOperl-5.38.2

Uploaders

CountTimestampPAUSEDistribution-Version
10002001-05-11 08:49:29IAMCALFUSE-Server-1.00
20002003-08-12 22:01:03DBROOKSBusiness-OnlinePayment-iAuthorizer-0.1
30002005-12-14 06:59:08LITCHIEAlgorithm-Step-0.01
40002008-04-21 16:37:40INASjis-0.11
50002010-09-13 15:23:46TIMOSConvert-ASN1-asn1c-0.01
60002013-02-19 02:35:07MAJUSCULEApp-DuckPAN-0.064
70002016-05-25 12:58:19PERLMAXGtk3-SourceView-0.1
78162024-03-08 18:07:11ATOYNet-OpenVPN-Manager-0.17

What Was the First?

Back in 1995 a few core Perl developers had started to write some code and wanted to release it to the world. There were a handful of repositiories, but Jarkko Hietaniemi had the idea to bring these together into a consistent set of distributions, perls and scripts across all repositories, providing a mirrored network of repositories. It took a while, but eventually it came together into what we now know as CPAN.

Speaking to Andreas König, it transpires that PAUSE started sometime between 15th and 20th August 1995. Andreas collected together 35 distributions from several different servers, and the Master PAUSE server was live. On 21st June 1995 Tim Bunce published The Perl 5 Module List, which details these early modules, although includes those that were included within Perl core as well as addition distributions.

As Andreas notes, "Unfortunately I have no archives that would fill the gap between perl 5alpha1 and the start of Pause. But there were these 35 modules and many more releases and there was no "first" that I could name. Perl 5alpha came with plenty of modules, they provided the critical mass to spur the community to add more and so they did -- instantly."

Having said that, if you wanted to hang your hat on a "first" release, according to the BACKPAN/CPAN timestamps, the first that is recorded within the current repositories is 'Symdump-1.20.tar.gz', released by one ANDK, on 16 Aug 1995 @ 9:12:18am.

For a more detailed history of Perl, please see the Perl Timeline

My thanks to Brian Cassidy for being the first to ask this, thus prompting me to write this addendum before anyone else thought to ask ;)