The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
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Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#2This is truly a down moment, to be sure, but it's pretty telling that the site became too hard to maintain because it's written in old Perl.
I'm not a Perl hater. I like Perl! I got my start in Perl and spoke at a YAPC::NA a few years ago. It's telling, is all I'm saying. It tells us something.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#3From the article:
> In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code. Luckily, there is now a viable alternative: MetaCPAN.org. The MetaCPAN team has been getting ready for the transition and is nearly ready to take over. Shortly, a link will be added to all pages on search.cpan.org to inform users of the upcoming change. After about a month, all traffic will be redirected to the equivalent MetaCPAN page.
Existing search.cpan.org links will continue to work after the transition.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#4Graham Barr did the world a huge service by creating and running search.cpan.org. I used it for many years, across many projects. Thank you Graham!
And it's nice that there exists a great replacement in metacpan.org
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#5This is truly a down moment, to be sure, but it's pretty telling that the site became too hard to maintain because it's written in old Perl. I'm not a Perl hater. I like Perl! I got my start in Perl and spoke at a YAPC::NA a few years ago. It's telling, is all I'm saying. It tells us something.
It could be more about MetaCPAN just being better. Or the maintainer looking to move on for other reasons. Not worth the maintenance for a variety of reasons other than that it is made out of Perl.
I’m assuming MetaCPAN is written in Perl, at least in part. But I’m on mobile and I don’t want to research right now; I could be wrong.
Edit: also, 2005 era Python or Ruby, for a website, would likely be unpleasant to maintain as well.
Edit2: I know you’re not a Perl hater; I’m not an advocate; just playing the devil’s advocate.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#6This is truly a down moment, to be sure, but it's pretty telling that the site became too hard to maintain because it's written in old Perl. I'm not a Perl hater. I like Perl! I got my start in Perl and spoke at a YAPC::NA a few years ago. It's telling, is all I'm saying. It tells us something.
My guess at what it's telling us is that the OSS competitor will always win in the long term. I actually enjoy refactoring old Perl code into Modern Perl, but if I can't contribute, I can't help. Metacpan is has a larger community support because we can help out.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#7This is truly a down moment, to be sure, but it's pretty telling that the site became too hard to maintain because it's written in old Perl. I'm not a Perl hater. I like Perl! I got my start in Perl and spoke at a YAPC::NA a few years ago. It's telling, is all I'm saying. It tells us something.
To be fair, almost all non-maintained source codes becomes a problem, no matter the language, apply security fixes, update dependencies, handle all deprecated stuff, etc. isn't fun!
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#8Now this is you how EOL a beloved product. By working with an OSS replacement such that the transition is transparent.
Super thanks to the team for the CPAN search (it was a lifesaver many times for me in the past!) as well as for their awesome transition plan.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#9From the article: > In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code. Luckily, there is now a viable alternative: MetaCPAN.org. The MetaCPAN team has been getting ready for the transition and is nearly ready to take over. Shortly, a link will be added to all pages on search.cpan.org to inform users of the upcoming change. After about a month, all traffic will be redirect…
No link rot. Bravo for a display of true competence.
This is more surprising to see than it ought to be.
Re: The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org
#10From the article: > In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code. Luckily, there is now a viable alternative: MetaCPAN.org. The MetaCPAN team has been getting ready for the transition and is nearly ready to take over. Shortly, a link will be added to all pages on search.cpan.org to inform users of the upcoming change. After about a month, all traffic will be redirect…
>Existing search.cpan.org links will continue to work after the transition.
They should get a lot more credit for this. Linkrot sucks, and I'm sure the effort that was required to pull off maintaining those links is going to pay off greatly for many for years to come.