As a enthusiast Perl user over the years, I note that the CPAN and the associated toolkit (the CPAN module, its shell, ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build) is pretty good at this. It has it's share of cruft (in fact a whole lot of it) but it's certainly better than most solutions in this field in my eye. Perl already has it's own centralised documentation on the CPAN and local copies are installed and accessible through the command line tool perldoc and miscellanous other modules that allows a more pleasant esthetic experience (Pod::POM::Web is pretty good at this, it even comes with it's own little http server and allow you to search your local doc in many way). It might be worth keeping an eye on the development of the CP6AN if it ever comes to life (I'm a firm Perl6 believer but some don't share this belief, with some justifications I fear)... Cabal is an interesting experiment but it just don't compare for now. -- Jedaï