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    my @perllist;

    # we got impatient waiting for cpan.org to get updated to show 5.28...
    # So, we also fetch from metacpan for anything that looks perlish,
    # and we do our own processing to filter out the development
    # releases and minor versions when needed (using
    # filter_perl_available)
    my $json = http_get('https://fastapi.metacpan.org/v1/release/versions/perl')
        or die "\nERROR: Unable to retrieve list of perls from Metacpan.\n\n";

    my $decoded = decode_json($json);
    for my $release ( @{ $decoded->{releases} } ) {
        next
            if !$release->{authorized};
        push @perllist, [$release->{name}, $release->{download_url}];
    }
    foreach my $perl ( $self->filter_perl_available( \@perllist ) ) {
        $perls->{ $perl->[0] } = $perl->[1];
    }

    return $perls;
}