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As we all know, this site holds old 5.0 perldocs. Perldocs on this site are handier than linking directly to perldoc with the perldoc:// tag, because that is a lot of typing.

After some ranting about this, crazyinsomniac told me that there has been discussion and the decision was that this site would never get a documentation update. That's a shame.

If it is not going to be updated, it needs to be removed. We are now giving people bad advice by refering them to old documentation. That is not a nice thing to do.

I suggest that we remove all documentation and link to http://perldoc.com/ instead. While you're at it, add documentation for all releases. I'm thinking of something like this:

perlreftut

Perl documentation is no longer maintained on this site. Please refer to one of the documents below:

It shouldn't be hard to implement.

We're Perl Hackers. We can parse html, we know how to link. There is, in my view, no excuse to not do this. I have no idea how Everything works, but I'm sure the possibility of updating nodes automatically does exist, somehow.

crazyinsomniac said I had to have convincing code to support my plead. I don't know if the following is convincing, but it should ease the automatic node updates: 

use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use LWP::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper( do {
    my %pod;

    push @{ $pod{ substr $_->[1], 4, -5 } }, "http://perldoc.com/perl$
+_->[0]/$_->[1]"
        for map {
            my $v = $_;
            map {
                [
                    $v,
                    $_->attr('href')
                ],
            } HTML::TreeBuilder
                -> new
                -> parse( get "http://perldoc.com/perl$v/pod.html" )
                -> look_down(
                    _tag => 'a',
                    sub { shift->attr('href') =~ /^pod/ }
                )
        } reverse sort map {
            $_->attr('value')
        } HTML::TreeBuilder
           -> new
           -> parse( get 'http://perldoc.com/' )
           -> look_down( name => 'version' )
           -> content_list;
    \%pod;
} );

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Please make this site a bit more useable. 

- Yes, I reinvent wheels.
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