After downloading a mirror with CPAN::Mini, you can examine the full list of modules just by looking
inside of 02packages.details.txt.gz


TODO:  

    - is it possible to build this into a CGI script, that provides easy links to search.cpan.org/dist/...  ?

            - it would also be awfully handy of the brief descriptions could be provided...  this
              would take a bit more parsing, but not that difficult.
              It should look just like this!!    (this example is for DBIx::* )
                        http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Database_Interfaces/DBIx


            - are there any existing tools out there that provide this?






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quickly examine 02packages.details.txt.gz :

    gzip -dc 02packages.details.txt.gz | perl -nale 'BEGIN{while(<>){last if /^$/}}; print $F[0]'

                [approx 90,000 lines are returned]



quickly examine 03modlist.data.gz :

    gzip -dc 03modlist.data.gz | perl -000 -le '$discard=<>; eval <>; print join "\n", sort keys %{ CPAN::Modulelist->data }'

                [approx 6,000 lines are returned]