X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq2.pod;h=da70187acdbe35e01c65e3864143d0bb82daf103;hb=5cb3728cfe288ad05e8d10c8176f72378da2238f;hp=ab95ef2a16146a7c859a94f3006ff1274b64b72a;hpb=6c43ff6050b10d00efb4a20d298cc49873d7315c;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index ab95ef2..da70187 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ =head1 NAME -perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $) +perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/02/08 22:31:57 $) =head1 DESCRIPTION @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ third-party modules and extensions, designed for everything from commercial database interfaces to keyboard/screen control to web walking and CGI scripts. The master web site for CPAN is http://www.cpan.org/ and there is the CPAN Multiplexer at -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you +http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html which will choose a mirror near you via DNS. See http://www.perl.com/CPAN (without a slash at the end) for how this process works. Also, http://mirror.cpan.org/ has a nice interface to the http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ miscellaneous modules. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html or http://search.cpan.org/ for a more complete list of modules by category. +CPAN is not affiliated with O'Reilly and Associates. =head2 Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl? @@ -182,9 +183,10 @@ following groups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Writing CGI scripts for the Web. -There is also Usenet gateway to the mailing list used by the crack -Perl development team (perl5-porters) at -news://news.perl.com/perl.porters-gw/ . +There is also Usenet gateway to Perl mailing lists sponsored by perl.org at +nntp://nntp.perl.org, or a web interface to the same lists at +http://nntp.perl.org/group/. Other groups are listed at +http://lists.perl.org. =head2 Where should I post source code? @@ -195,9 +197,9 @@ including setting the Followup-To header line to NOT include alt.sources; see their FAQ (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-sources-intro/) for details. If you're just looking for software, first use Google -(http://www.google.com), Deja (http://www.deja.com), and -CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org). This is faster and more -productive than just posting a request. +(http://www.google.com), Google's usenet search interface +(http://groups.google.com), and CPAN Search (http://search.cpan.org). +This is faster and more productive than just posting a request. =head2 Perl Books @@ -383,7 +385,7 @@ I ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ), and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I ( http://www.usenix.org/ ) -The Perl columns of Randal L. Schwarz are available on the web at +The Perl columns of Randal L. Schwartz are available on the web at http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/ , http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/ , and http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/ . @@ -425,7 +427,7 @@ subscription information. The Google search engine now carries archived and searchable newsgroup content. -http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.lang.perl.misc +http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.perl.misc If you have a question, you can be sure someone has already asked the same question at some point on c.l.p.m. It requires some time and patience @@ -440,7 +442,7 @@ in releases and comes in well-defined packages. There is a very large user community and an extensive literature. The comp.lang.perl.* newsgroups and several of the mailing lists provide free answers to your questions in near real-time. Perl has traditionally been supported by -Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriads of +Larry, scores of software designers and developers, and myriad programmers, all working for free to create a useful thing to make life better for everyone. @@ -493,7 +495,7 @@ bugs. Read the perlbug(1) man page (perl5.004 or later) for more information. -=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? +=head2 What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? The Perl Home Page at http://www.perl.com/ is currently hosted by The O'Reilly Network, a subsidiary of O'Reilly and Associates. @@ -516,9 +518,12 @@ and there are many other sub-domains for special topics, such as http://bugs.perl.org/ http://history.perl.org/ http://lists.perl.org/ - http://news.perl.org/ http://use.perl.org/ +http://www.cpan.org/ is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, +a replicated worlwide repository of Perl software, see +the I question earlier in this document. + =head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1997-2001 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.