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You can Search for anything in the Developer Documentation (installed with XCode).
It is extremely frustrating that these links break with time, not made any better when then users write me to tell that my links are broken.
I notice Microsoft regularly breaks its own developer URLs as well... even the links from within Visual Studio's help system to their online content. It's sad that the most reliable way to find documentation is through Google.
Incidentally, Google tends to break CPAN's documentation a lot. If I visit the "canonical URL" for a module, something like http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Foo::Bar , it always works. If I google for Foo::Bar, though, sometimes I get linked to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar-0.17 , which is 404 because the author deleted version 0.17 and uploaded 0.18. Amusing that other people have the opposite problem.
I've never experienced what you describe.
It’s not like this is even exclusive to the documentation—every new release of OS X takes over /macosx (or whatever it is). It seems like somebody involved feels that there’s no use for the past.
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Incidentally, Google tends to break CPAN's documentation a lot. If I visit the "canonical URL" for a module, something like http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Foo::Bar , it always works. If I google for Foo::Bar, though, sometimes I get linked to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar-0.17 , which is 404 because the author deleted version 0.17 and uploaded 0.18. Amusing that other people have the opposite problem.
You can't delete anything from CPAN. I've never experienced what you describe.
That’s why we have things like http://backpan.perl.org/