Fellow Monks,
As times change, so do services, and CPAN is not an exception to that. In the recent years, a site called MetaCPAN has cropped up and it provides a more modern look & feel, easier-to-remember URLs, and an all in all nicer user experience than the classic CPAN site. It supposedly also has a nice API, but I haven’t dug into that so far.
It’s a complete mirror and contains everything that the classic CPAN does. Here are some example pages:
- Plack::Builder module
- Plack release
- Spreadsheet-ParseExcel release — note the use of a dash here, and
PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIMdouble-colons in module URLs
Additional niceties include an easy switch between CPAN and BackPan versions anywhere, source code highlighting, easy links to Changes and the release browser, and more
So, having said all that — I’d like to have an option in the display settings for the cpan:// links to go to MetaCPAN instead of the classic site, if that’s possible.
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Re: Option for MetaCPAN in cpan links
by davido (Cardinal) on Jun 29, 2013 at 01:09 UTC | |
by Ralesk (Pilgrim) on Jun 29, 2013 at 02:19 UTC | |
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 29, 2013 at 02:48 UTC | |
Re: Option for MetaCPAN in cpan links
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 29, 2013 at 00:54 UTC | |
Re: Option for MetaCPAN in cpan links
by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 29, 2013 at 08:54 UTC |