Just playing around with my local mini CPAN mirror, I thought it might be interesting to see who and what take up the most space in the archive:
30 Largest Distributions:
Bio-PrimerDesigner, SMCKAY, 10241687
CFPlus, MLEHMANN, 9899481
Number-Phone-UK-DetailedLocations, DCANTRELL, 7652596
PDF-API2, AREIBENS, 7120930
Perl6-Pugs,AUDREYT, 6839270 *
perl_mlb, ILYAZ, 6439614 *
Tk, NI-S, 6011130
Bio-ExtractNE, XERN, 5540005
Unicode-Unihan, DANKOGAI, 5120384
Ogg-Vorbis-Decoder, DANIEL, 4435279
Harvey, MEYERCJM, 4358848
Redland, DJBECKETT, 3912158
Video-PlaybackMachine, STEPHEN, 3274956
CAD-ProEngineer, MMETTES, 2771821
Alien-SeleniumRC, LUKEC, 2754364
Win32-GUI, ROBERTMAY, 2720618
Lingua-ZH-CCDICT, DROLSKY, 2704573
Number-Phone, DCANTRELL, 2676912
Statistics-Gap, ANAGHAKK, 2610015
Boost-Graph, DBURDICK, 2495149
Bundle-WebDyne-Dist, ASPEER, 2407650
HTML-Menu-TreeView, LZE, 2348687
PerlMagick, JCRISTY, 2303868
GO-TermFinder, SHERLOCK, 2184918
swig, DBEAZLEY, 2058195
Encode, DANKOGAI, 1998319
JDBC, TIMB, 1966505
MHonArc, EHOOD, 1932796
Language-Haskell ,AUTRIJUS, 1910028
FFmpeg, ALLENDAY, 1847705
* likely to be removed in the next CPAN-Mini release as they fall under the "perl" filter
30 Largest Author Directories
MLEHMANN, 12998372
DCANTRELL, 10487786
SMCKAY, 10241687
DANKOGAI, 8450786
ILYAZ, 8396563
AUTRIJUS, 7727676
AUDREYT, 7720603
DANIEL, 7198399
AREIBENS, 7120930
NI-S, 6156232
LGODDARD, 5916059
XERN, 5885541
DROLSKY, 4645282
MEYERCJM, 4358848
STEPHEN, 4312094
ADAMK, 4290066
DJBECKETT, 3930247
MSERGEANT, 3343755
LUKEC, 3180446
CMUNGALL, 2978914
ALLENDAY, 2825191
MMETTES, 2771821
ROBERTMAY, 2755326
ANAGHAKK, 2638451
DBURDICK, 2603552
JRED, 2529895
TIMB, 2515658
SHERLOCK, 2514434
MIKER, 2483834
SMUELLER, 2423092
