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Sad news, and I frown upon the reasons for its going away. From the announcement:
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In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code.
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As if old code would rot away. And below in the comments, this (emphasis mine):
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Nigel HorneMay 17, 2018 at 1:00 PM<br><br>
That's a shame. I prefer the clean interface of search.cpan.org over the metacpan site.<br><br>
<b>Where's the source code?</b> May be kinda fun to play around with.
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DanMay 17, 2018 at 1:29 PM<br><br>
https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web for the interface, https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api for the search/index backend<br><br><br>
DanMay 17, 2018 at 1:37 PM<br><br>
<b>If you meant the source code of cpansearch, it has never been published.</b><br><br>
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<p>Wait, what? It has <i>never been published</i>? And then maintenance becomes a burden? Whilst I am deeply thankful for Graham for having it written in the first place, and all maintainers who helped to keep it running, I have to say:
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<p><b>Congrats, search.cpan.org maintainers for not leveraging support from the community which this wonderful tool helped to build.</b></p>
<p>Perl itself is in [https://perl5.git.perl.org/|git] for a long time now. Why didn't that happen with the code for that site?</p>
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<small>perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'</small>
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