From Randy Kobes:

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sourceforge project is available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan-search/
containing a suite of modules to set up and maintain a
searchable CPAN database. This is currently being tested at
<http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/cpan-search.html. At present
the docs might be considered minimal - if you encounter
problems or bugs, or see improvements and enhancements, a
mailing list is available through the sourceforge site.
I'm also quite open to giving people commit access to
the cvs repository, if interested.

Just a word of explanation - this suite doesn't have the
full functionality of the (amazing) search.cpan.org, nor is
it intended to; in fact, it can be used (with a more limited 
functionality) on a machine that doesn't have a local CPAN mirror.
Hence the project name is CPAN-Search-Lite.
Although a set of example web pages (via Template-Toolkit)
are in the distribution, one of the goals here is to perhaps
explore other services (soap? CPAN/CPANPLUS-like tools?)
that a database like this might provide.
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Thanks.

-- 
best regards,
randy

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