I'll concede that that is very good. And I'll also concede that I can't think of any other systems that do this as well as CPAN (if at all). But my point remains that for 99% of developers we want a library that provides functionality (e.g. an ORM for a common database) and in that respect CPAN will only have an advantage for very obscure requirements. And even then it still loses to Java.

The testing stuff is good and it's the direction everyone should be going but not having it obviously isn't too much of a problem because so few systems currently have it (CPAN was successful long before it had it as well).