search.cpan.org is going away (replaced by MetaCPAN)

James E Keenan jkeenan at pobox.com
Wed May 30 18:05:10 UTC 2018


On 05/30/2018 01:53 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote:
> Found this news item today relating to Perl:
> https://log.perl.org/2018/05/goodbye-search-dot-cpan-dot-org.html
> 
> In short, search.cpan.org is being retired on June 25, with the
> replacement MetaCPAN website to take its place.  At that time they
> will transparently redirect all URL requests to comparable MetaCPAN
> pages.
> 
> FreeBSD porting style usually requires that the URL for Perl modules
> (in pkg-descr) be set to something like...
> 
> #####
> WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/
> #####
> 
> While these links will (theoretically) continue working, we should
> think about a mass find-replace in all "*/p5-*/pkg-descr" URL fields
> to point to new MetaCPAN URLs.  Also, the Porter's Handbook / portlint
> / etc would need to be updated to recommend using MetaCPAN URLs
> instead of the existing search.cpan.org links.
> 
> I didn't see any other discussions on this in the past couple months
> of the mailinglist archive so I thought I'd raise the issue here :)
> 
> -Greg
> 

Gret, thank you for calling attention to this.

My hunch is that once search.cpan.org has been retired, we should take a 
sample of the URL fields in the pkg-descr field and verify the links 
they actually resolve to (as distinct from what they are currently 
*expected* to resolve to).  At that point, a mass find-replace becomes 
feasible and testable.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan


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