Mmmmm, this sounds like you have found yourself a Chance For Glory. You might contact the Author of the deprecated module and ask politely if you can take it over. The best Maintainer of code on CPAN is someone who is actively interested in the useability and stability of the module.
B On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Ricardo Pais Oliveira <rpaisdeolive...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk>wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:35:10 +0100 >> Ricardo Pais Oliveira <rpaisdeolive...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi! >> > >> > I am using the module WWW::Vimeo::Simple::Video for this small >> > personal project http://visualworlds.ricardopaisoliveira.com but it >> > stopped working and when I looked on cpan the module was gone. >> > >> > I'm new to this world and would like to understand better how this >> > words: it's frequent to modules on cpan disappear? >> >> Not very common in my experience - old modules tend to more often be >> left to fester than removed :) >> >> >> > Is there a list of >> > last deleted modules (explaining the reason)? When a module is >> > deleted nothing remains? Not even some landing page where it previous >> > was?. >> >> Anything that was once on CPAN can usually be found on BackPAN. >> > > > Great. Is there an easy way to search BackPAN? > > >> >> In this case, the latest version on BackPAN is: >> >> >> http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALEXBIO/WWW-Vimeo-Simple-0.14.tar.gz >> >> The README for that dist shows the module as deprecated: >> >> >> http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALEXBIO/WWW-Vimeo-Simple-0.14.readme >> >> If you're curious about why it was removed from CPAN, you could try >> contacting the author themselves. I would imagine, though, that the >> author decided there were better options out there, and no longer >> wished to maintain their module. >> > > I doubt that. I can't find any implementation of the Vimeo API done in Perl > besides that retired module, that implemented only the Simple API ( > https://developer.vimeo.com/apis). > > >> >> Cheers >> >> Dave P > > > Thanks. -- Bob Goolsby bob.gool...@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
