Topic/metacpan.org

[karenetheridge]

All L<> markup now uses metacpan.org instead of search.cpan.org, as per this misfiled ticket: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=114420

I haven't talked to the metacpan folks about this yet though, so strictly speaking the acknowledgements section regarding use of the site is still a lie. That's to come. :)

[theory]

I don't yet feel like there is significant community consensus around an "official" CPAN web site. Metacpan may well be it, given that it is open-source, but search.cpan.org has a long history of stability and service to the community, so I am loathe to just go and change the default value.

What might be better is to make any changes necessary to simplify the use of custom URLs. Maybe attributes could be added with a sprintf pattern for where module and distribution names should go? This would allow users of the API to change the URLs without having to do hinky things in subclasses? Ideally, there would also be ways to set these things via command-line options or environment variables or something.

That's not to say that we shouldn't change the default at some point, but I don't think the time is quite ripe yet. FYI: pod-people discussion.

[karenetheridge]

Well, it's here if you want it.

[dolmen]

👍 for linking to MetaCPAN!

[tobyink]

I'm also in favour of switching to metacpan.org.

That said, it's comparatively easy to do it in a subclass...

{
    package Pod::Simple::HTML::MetaCPAN;
    use parent "Pod::Simple::HTML";     
    sub new {
        my $class = shift;
        my $self  = $class->SUPER::new(@_);
        $self->perldoc_url_prefix("https://metacpan.org/module/");
        return $self;
    }
}

Perhaps if that were demonstrated in the documentation, people might be less bothered by the default URL prefix.

[theory]

On Mar 1, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Toby Inkster notifications@github.com wrote:

Perhaps if that were demonstrated in the documentation, people might be less bothered by the default URL prefix.

I would welcome a patch that turns the the search.cpan.org URL into a sprintf format. Same for all other URLs (e.g., he.net).

Best,

David

[karenetheridge]

The times, they are a changing... debian is now using metacpan.org for their links -- http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2012/11/msg00024.html

[mohawk2]

https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/issues/61

[dagolden]

Since this has come up again, here's my view of what I'd like to see changed on metacpan before any switch:

• metacpan administered by Perl NOC
• metacpan making all distributions searchable, not just indexed ones

[theory]

Again, if someone wants to turn the search URL into a printf-formattable attribute, I will merge that, but not a change of the existing default unless there is general agreement from the community. That discussion should take place on pod-people and/or perl 5 porters.