I've been deploying websites since the beginning and the cpan situation seems... odd.

Why just toss such an ancient, functional and valuable URI (it's worth millions of dollars!)?

Shouldn't it be the other way round, with whatever META means being replaced by SEARCH (in the url)?

Meta doesn't even look like CPAN.

Why even risk breaking so many incoming links?

It's such a bad idea I would pay to stop it. I can kick in five figures. Where do I send the check?

The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity.—Damian Conway

In reply to Re^2: The CPAN Apocalypse: June 25, 2018 by usemodperl
in thread The CPAN Apocalypse: June 25, 2018 by usemodperl

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