Comments on: Give Me MetaCPAN http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/ Just another Perl Hacker's blog Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Christian Walde http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7239 Christian Walde Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:02:13 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7239 > Isn’t it obvious that MetaCPAN is better?

No it isn’t, because it isn’t. MetaCPAN does a lot of things much better, but there are still a number of issues where search results are flaky to useless, or metacpan just plain refuses to render the pod of modules that sco will show just fine.

]]> By: Michael J http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7231 Michael J Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:33:42 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7231 Chrome extensions include “Redirector” and “Switcheroo”. Not tried either, but I have tried this javascript redirect (needs adjusting): http://superuser.com/a/284144/65611 which works most of the time (not looked into why it fails yet)

]]> By: Aristotle Pagaltzis http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7209 Aristotle Pagaltzis Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:36:58 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7209 Now to find a way to use this together with the search.cpan.org search engine… my Greasemonkey script for that (description and rationale) takes a different tack that does not compose with this solution verbatim – you would just get redirected to the inferior MetaCPAN search. A solution that did both would be perfect.

]]> By: Craig Treptow http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7202 Craig Treptow Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:44:25 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7202 Thank you for this!

]]> By: Dimitar Petrov http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7196 Dimitar Petrov Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:07:35 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7196 I use it mostly when some google result point me to search.cpan.org and it’s really easy to switch :)

]]> By: Daniel Berrange http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7194 Daniel Berrange Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:32:58 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7194 Hmm, the Fedora ‘cpanspec’ tool inserts the following type of http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Random/ into all RPM specs. If metacpan.org is the preferred site, sounds like a bulk search-and-replace in Fedora RPM specs is needed & a fix to cpanspec.

]]> By: Chisel http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/#comment-7193 Chisel Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:34:10 +0000 http://perlhacks.com/?p=541#comment-7193 This is a great blog post and a wonderful discovery – it looks like I can massively simplify my userscript … maybe now I’m at the point where I just need to locate a Redirector plugin for Chrome

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