in reply to CPAN down again... (search.cpan.org)

As per marto's reply, the CPAN is not down. The CPAN is an archive mirrored across almost 500 servers in over 60 countries. It's hard to imagine anything short of the zombie apocalypse taking the CPAN down.

search.cpan.org is down though. search.cpan.org is a sites that provide a nice, searchable interface listing CPAN distributions and showing their documentation. Although it is a popular gateway to the CPAN, it is not the only one.

We also have metacpan.org, which is gaining ground in terms of popularity.

(There was also kobesearch once upon a time, but its maintainer sadly passed away, and the site is no more. There is periodic talk of resurrecting the site.)

toby döt ink

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Re^2: CPAN down again...
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Jul 14, 2014 at 13:44 UTC
    search.cpan.org is a sites that provide a nice, searchable interface listing CPAN distributions and showing their documentation. Although it is a popular gateway to the CPAN, it is not the only one.

    If you're using Google, it's pretty much the only one that you'll hit. And, if you aren't familiar with Perl and don't know about the alternatives, then it will be the documentation you hit. I don't think I've ever seen metacpan in a Google search result for a module.

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      With the amount of personalisation done, it's hard to compare Google searches. The results I get are not likely to be the same as the ones you get. But searching for "kavorka perl" I get the following:

      1. http://blogs.perl.org/users/toby_inkster/2013/11/introducing-kavorka.html
      2. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Kavorka
      3. https://metacpan.org/release/Kavorka
      4. https://github.com/tobyink/p5-kavorka
      5. https://github.com/lukec/stripe-perl/issues/28 (hmmm... looks interesting... I think I'll reply to this issue)

      So metacpan is certainly in there, even if it's not (yet) rating as highly as search.cpan.org. If the latter is constantly down when Googlebot visits though, expect this to change over time!

      toby döt ink
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