There is also a mechanism for the results of the Perl module's "make test" to be reported to a site which aggregates and reports them by Perl version and OS - a sort of distributed build farm. See for example http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBD-Pg+3.5.3
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On Feb 27, 2017, at 1:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Oh, does CPAN distribute compiled modules or requires users to compile > them.
Like PGXN, it formally does not care, but its implementation expects source code distributions what will be built and installed by users. Note that the vast majority of those modules, -- even pure Perl modules -- are built with make.
So users typically get their Perl modules in one of these ways:
2. As source code from CPAN, from which they are compiled (when necessary), built, and installed by the user or a build system such as [Homebrew](https://brew.sh).
