On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 09:41 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > Pod People, > > > I got a pull request to switch to metacpan.org for L<> http links. > AFAIK search.cpan.org is not deprecated, and is still the official > community CPAN search site. If there is some discussion about changing > it, or if Graham thinks it's time to switch then great. Otherwise, I > am not inclined to accept this patch (though if it is hard to change > the default URL with a subclass I would be happy to take that, or a > command-line option). > > But I thought it ought to be subject to discussion here before I make > any unilateral (and potentially uninformed) decisions. Comments?
Graham's search.cpan.org site has provided an excellent and valuable service and continues to do so. However I think that the switch to metacpan.org as the default source for CPAN metadata and documentation should happen eventually. The key difference is that metacpan.org is an open source project, which makes it easier for people to contribute to. As such, it is a community site. Regards Grant
