dgaramond2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there a mechanism or convention on deprecating my own CPAN module? For example I see that some other author has done an equivalent and better module, and I want to encourage people to use that module instead. Preferably without deleting my module out of existence or even releasing a new version just to say "this module is deprecated".

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Re: Deprecating CPAN modules?
by DrHyde (Prior) on Apr 13, 2007 at 11:39 UTC
    You'll need to upload a new version, if only to add some text to the docs to say that it's deprecated.

    I would also make the module spit out warnings when used (which the user could turn off) and then remove it from the CPAN after a year or so. It would also be neighbourly to notify any other CPAN authors who have dependencies on your module - you can hunt them down through this page.

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Re: Deprecating CPAN modules?
by explorer (Chaplain) on Apr 13, 2007 at 10:05 UTC

    Exists various methods for deprecated

    I see that authors mark modules with (DEPRECATED) front the description line.

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      Actually, it needs to be noted in the NAME section of the pod to show up in CPAN search. 

      =head1 NAME

Foo::Bar - (Deprecated) Use Bam::Baz instead

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