The only known benefit of CPAN - automated test running, has never once proved helpful. Your experience is so very different from mine (and that of everyone I

The only known benefit of CPAN - automated test running, has never once proved helpful. Your experience is so very different from mine (and that of everyone I know) that I'm not sure we're on the same planet. CPAN Testers provide near real time feedback on the patches made to Perl itself. That's the combined test suites of almost 130,000 modules for every commit to the Perl language and core libraries.