Accidentally Building a CPAN Web Platform

An Accidental CPAN Web Platform

Sometimes you design a system. And sometimes you make a series of vaguely related decisions over five years and eventually realise that, quite by accident, you’ve designed a system. I think I’ve just done the latter. Back in February 2021, Gabor Szabo wrote an article called Perl modules with their own web sites. He pointed […]

Several Small Bits of News

A few little bits and pieces, none of which justify a blog post to themselves. blogs.perl.org Some of you will have seen that Evozon’s grant to replace blogs.perl.org was cancelled a couple of months ago. This made me sad as I (along with the rest of the blogs.perl.org team) really want to see the current, […]

Give Me MetaCPAN

Ever since MetaCPAN launched I’ve been getting increasingly irritated with people who still use links to search.cpan.org. Isn’t it obvious that MetaCPAN is better? Why do people still insist on sharing links to the older site? Of course they do it for various reasons. Perhaps they aren’t as in touch with the modern Perl world […]