use Perl has an article that describes some of the work behind developing a language archive site such as Perl's CPAN. "It seems that there is a lot of interest in having similar archives for other languages like CPAN is for Perl. I should know; over the years people from at least Python, Ruby, and Java communities have approached me or other core CPAN people to ask basically 'How did we do it?'. Very recently I've seen even more interest from some people in the Perl community wanting to actively reach out a helping hand to other communities. This 'missive' tries to describe my thinking and help people wanting to build their own CANs. Since I hope this message will somehow end up reaching the other language communities I will explicitly include URLs that are (hopefully) obvious to Perl people."

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