Switch default $Pod::Simple::HTML::Perldoc_URL_Prefix to https://metacpan.org/pod/ ?

[mohawk2]

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[jberger]

My $0.02, not that anyone asked. I prefer metacpan too, and yet sco has historical sway. I would offer the owner/operator (GBARR?) a chance to open it, I say we let them have a chance to remain king. If they won't, I can't see how we should support it with a viable open alternative present.

The difference between SCO and say BPO (http://blogs.perl.org) on a closed source platform is that there is no viable open source multiuser blog platform to rival it. BPO is also closed source, commercial in fact, but actually I understand that better. it's an advertisement for a product built in Perl, donated to the community for free use. What good does a closed source SCO do anyone?

I think the community should decide to offer its support behind the most viable and open alternative when a choice like this presents itself. If SCO chooses to be that, then, so be it. Otherwise, my vote would be for MetaCPAN.

P.S. Some have floated "being cautious about publicizing negative opinions". Indeed that's always a wise course. That said, I don't believe that's what I'm saying. I hope that SCO would choose to open source, that it would become more responsive to feature requests and bug fixes, that it would be a model for other open source perl sites. I hope that people can see this as a fact-based argument and not a personal one.

[theory]

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