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syphilis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

In the perl source, we find various modules in the 'cpan', 'dist' and 'ext' directories.
What are the rules that determine which of those 3 directories houses which modules ?

For example, why is it that POSIX is in the 'ext' directory, but threads is in the 'dist' directory ? (Why not the other way round ? Or why aren't they both in the same directory ?)

Cheers,
Rob