Get Hacking on MetaCPAN in Just Minutes | Olaf Alders [blogs.perl.org]

One of the fun things about MetaCPAN is that we've split the project into two main parts: an API and a front end. What this means is that if you want to start pushing your code into http://beta.metacpan.org, you don't need to run a local copy of the API. You can just git clone the front end, install your dependencies and be on your way.

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