"I'm quite sure they would respond with all the reasons why I am wrong."

So, a couple of things:

"Besides, there is much more to this situation than meets the eye"

If you're going to cite something as a source, at least read it:

"Hm... seems here is some background "war" between Perl institute (owner of cpan.org) and Perl foundation (owner of metacpan.org). Not working search.cpan.org hurts perl, so if someone want stop search.cpan.org it should at least put to search.cpan.org an redirector what should redirect requests to the metacpan.org. The current status is really boring. BTW, here is already one reopen vote - voting to reopen too, (and reformulate the question) to: how to write a a simple PSGI cpan->metacpan redirector... ;) – jm666 May 19 '14 at 14:30

There is no background war. The Perl Institute does not exist. I took that over a long time ago, then merged it with The Perl Foundation. The cpan.org domain is different than a particular host. Elaine Ashton and Jarkko Hientenami control the domain records, but not every host. search.cpan.org is run by Graham Barr (by himself). – brian d foy May 19 '14 at 14:48

chromatic has been very clear in correcting the users misinformation.

"it's already broken: redirects "fix" it."

This is also untrue. search.cpan.org currently works, it won't redirect to metacpan until the 25th, and even then searching won't be broken, searches will just redirect to the same place cpan.org has taken you for years.

In reply to Re^5: The CPAN Apocalypse: June 25, 2018 by marto
in thread The CPAN Apocalypse: June 25, 2018 by usemodperl

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