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I hate to do this, but... Well, actually... https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehensive&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=l3AmW7--GcPnswGd

I hate to do this, but... Well, actually... https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehensive&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari&dlnr=1&sei=l3AmW7--GcPnswGd-ryQBw https://www.google.com/search?q=comprehensive&ie=UTF-8&oe=UT... On a more serious note, while I was not aware of how extensively mirrored CPAN is, there is something to be said for it being the canonical source.

peterwwillis 8y ago
Ok, I'll grant you "all" is in the defintion, but so is "nearly all". Comprehensive is often used with a modifier to denote that it doesn't cover all possibilities. It also is applied to subjects that can't include all possibilities, or where they can't reasonably be known. Its root word compréhensif also hints at the subject covering many areas, but not all of them; a thorough understanding. CPAN covers nearly all Perl libraries, and also covers nearly all categories of modules, as they are organized into a hierarchy based on topic, and the modules' naming naturally falls into a hierarchy as well. It's easy to find a module even without a search engine, and thus easy to find out whether you need to make one or whether one already exists. The result is a comprehensive archive of libraries.