DON'T CPANIC!

schwern on 2007-12-24T05:27:32

You know about CPAN and you know about CPANTS. A few weeks ago, Josh Heumann and I riffed on some more clevar CPAN puns...

* CPANgalacticgargleblaster: the preferred drink of the CPAN author. Like having an annoyed user walk into the bar and hit you in the head with a lemon wrapped around a brick.

* CPANgloss: the best of all possible CPAN mirrors.

* CPANgea: all CPAN mirrors united into one.

* CPANic: what users do when they can't install CPAN modules.

* CPANdaid: the patches necessary to fix a CPANic.

* CPANacea: when you have a problem and you find a ready made solution on CPAN.

* CPANache: when you release a particularly dazzling module in a particularly cavalier "maybe it doesn't entirely work, but it's AWESOME" manner. Audrey, Damian and Simon Cozens all have CPANache.

* CPANcake: when a module release gets hit with a pile of failures from CPAN Testers (ie. flattened like roadkill).


I got one :)

rhesa on 2007-12-24T15:10:35

* CPANdemic -- what happens when Schwern makes an incompatible change to Test::More that brings down the entire testing infrastructure, and nothing can be installed or upgraded.

Just kidding ;-)

CPANtheon

Yanick on 2007-12-24T16:48:56

CPANtheon: small group CPAN authors universally revered for their god-like genius and/or prolificity (e.g., the Damian, Audrey, the Swchern, etc...).

Another one

prakash on 2007-12-24T17:34:59

CPANorama: The expanse of CPAN and Perl goodness.