The end of an era: Saying goodbye to search.cpan.org

Post by singingfish » Wed, May 23, 2018, 11:45 AM UTC

justinator wrote: post #21

kyoob wrote: post #2

This 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.

That, sometimes a huge, throw the baby out with the bathwater, rewrite by a separate team (via MetaCPAN) is the correct way to go to move forward? Or, that CPAN's greatest worth is the modules themselves and not the search engine of the modules? What's it tell you? Anyways, thanks for all the search.cpan.org memories. I feel that I have memories pre 2002 of the site (maybe I'm wrong?)

Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 23, 2018, 12:28 PM UTC

rurban wrote: post #88

Also goodbye illguts then. Illustrated guts is the description of the perl5 internals, in html and images. Metacpan still does not allow displaying it and I won't pay for hosting services. Static GitHub pages maybe, but how stable will that be, and it's another link away from the primary content. They knew of this problem for years.

Post by haarg » Wed, May 23, 2018, 1:21 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #57

jedberg wrote: post #8

Now 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.

Same way that PyPI.org (Warehouse) replaced the old pypi.python.org codebase? Mostly transparently?

Post by perigrin » Wed, May 23, 2018, 2:34 PM UTC

kbenson wrote: post #87

moltar wrote: post #54

Finally Google search results will point to the better site. It was always so frustrating to google anything Perl related and get search.cpan.org over metacpan.

One of the only pure usability [1] wins from switching to DDG a few months back is that metacpan was always considered a better better/higher placed result. Of course, that only makes sense... [2] 1: It's nearly impossible to compete with Google when you aren't collecting every bit of data. That said, the reasons to switch remain compelling even months later. 2: https://metacpan.org/release/DDG

Post by justinator » Wed, May 23, 2018, 5:21 PM UTC

psergeant wrote: post #80

empath75 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If someone is being paid to modernize a perl app, they almost certainly are intended to rewrite it in another language entirely.

No, that’s just bullshit. It’s very easy to write Modern Perl, and most companies with large Perl codebases break their codebases into service based architectures and then rewrite them bit by bit.