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CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05 07/14/2004 05:11 PM This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05Grok Headline matches for CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.06CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.06 09/21/2004 12:55 AM cpan-1.4cpan-1.4 07/06/2004 06:28 AM CPAN-Dependency-0.06CPAN-Dependency-0.06 03/19/2005 02:50 AM CPAN SearchCPAN Search 03/14/2005 06:18 PM If you were going to look for something on CPAN today, please try cpansearch.perl.org today to help us test a new server. (We'll get more shortly to beef it up and make it Super Highly Available). :-)... CPAN-Mini-0.14CPAN-Mini-0.14 08/29/2004 12:23 AM CPAN::ForumCPAN::Forum 03/14/2005 05:37 PM gabor writes "I am happy to announce the first live version of CPAN::Forum. Graham integrated links to the individual subforums in the search.cpan results and Randy in the Kobes' search. I hope people who are searching for modules will find it a good... CPAN-Mini-0.32CPAN-Mini-0.32 01/01/2005 12:55 AM CPAN-Mini-0.36CPAN-Mini-0.36 01/07/2005 02:29 AM CPAN-Unpack-0.21CPAN-Unpack-0.21 06/30/2004 11:13 AM CPAN-Dependency-0.07CPAN-Dependency-0.07 04/03/2005 08:15 AM CPAN-Unwind-0.03CPAN-Unwind-0.03 03/27/2005 03:14 AM CPAN-Processor-0.03CPAN-Processor-0.03 12/29/2004 12:03 PM CPAN-WWW-Testers-0.25CPAN-WWW-Testers-0.25 04/11/2005 05:53 PM CPANPLUS - Beyond CPAN.pmCPANPLUS - Beyond CPAN.pm 03/13/2003 10:21 AM Interesting talk about CPANPLUS. They've done a very good job of separating the backend API from the shell, so that... CPAN-Processor-0.01CPAN-Processor-0.01 12/28/2004 07:46 AM CPAN-Mini-0.30CPAN-Mini-0.30 12/28/2004 07:05 PM CPAN-Mini-0.18CPAN-Mini-0.18 09/22/2004 12:16 AM CPAN-Processor-0.02CPAN-Processor-0.02 12/29/2004 01:18 AM CPAN-Mini-0.16CPAN-Mini-0.16 09/08/2004 01:24 AM CPAN-AutoINC-0.01CPAN-AutoINC-0.01 06/22/2004 11:40 PM Bot-CPAN-0.01_05Bot-CPAN-0.01_05 03/13/2003 10:14 AM CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.10CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.10 12/31/2004 01:26 AM CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.12CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.12 01/04/2005 06:25 PM CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.14CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.14 01/06/2005 02:11 AM CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.01CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.01 01/06/2005 05:51 PM CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_05CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_05 04/08/2005 12:29 PM CPAN-Search-Lite-0.64CPAN-Search-Lite-0.64 04/08/2005 12:39 AM CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_04CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_04 04/04/2005 06:46 PM CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_03CPAN-YACSmoke-0.03_03 04/04/2005 01:48 PM CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.22CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.22 04/03/2005 08:21 PM CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.18CPAN-Mini-Inject-0.18 04/03/2005 02:46 AM CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.21CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.21 04/01/2005 11:57 AM search.cpan.org movedsearch.cpan.org moved 03/14/2005 06:18 PM A few days ago search.cpan.org from the old host at Webster where it's been for some time, to a box in the perl.org rack. It's a bit faster and best of all it shouldn't bounce up and down like it was starting to do... Shopzilla (aka BizRate aka Good Friends of Perl) pulled out a couple of nice servers of their rack yesterday and gave them to us, yay. (So if you see broken images or something on their... CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.20CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.20 02/06/2005 01:17 AM Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.23Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.23 02/05/2005 09:54 PM CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.02CPAN-Mini-Tested-0.02 01/06/2005 05:51 PM Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.21Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.21 06/30/2004 06:01 AM Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.12Parse-CPAN-Packages-2.12 02/15/2004 06:17 PM The Feng Shui of CPANThe Feng Shui of CPAN 05/31/2004 06:44 AM
«Palms create a moiré pattern at the Helsinki Botanical Garden.» Friday morning began a bit more abruptly than usual since the normally rather inperturbable Jarkko grabbed my arm and pulled me out of bed. He noticed that the CPAN's main web page had somehow changed and thought that we had either been hacked or that someone had hijacked the DNS so I had to start poking around before being appropriately caffienated for the day. It was not an auspicious beginning. After a while, I determined that our main web host for CPAN, which is separate from the FUNET mothership since that host is ftp only, decided to redo the main index page, include a bunch of ads with a link to the 'real CPAN page'. I moved the DNS to another host inside the US which has a lot of bandwidth and who had offered previously to be the primary web host for CPAN while we figured out what was going on. The explanation we were offered was that they 'forgot' to tell us about the change in spite of remembering to show it to others. I have some beachfront poperty in Siberia to sell, too. CPAN has, over the years, been a popular target for criticism since it's not a portal, an enterprise solution, or a myriad of other faddish things that seem to come and go every week on the internet. Many people from other languages have asked how to make their own CPAN and Jarkko wrote The Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks to try to explain how and I've given the Grok king the CPAN talk at a few conferences attempting to explain how it all works. The CPAN is now, and will be for the foreseeable future, a simple ftp archive. This is all it is; no more, no less. This very simplicity is its strength and its secret to longevity. The various search engines, the RT queue, the testers results, and every other service in the CPAN domain is wholly separate from the archive itself. Those who wish to do something with CPAN and offer it to the world are encouraged to do so, but the second you mess with the heart and soul of the archive, you're going to meet a brick wall. Since those of us who mind the archive have been on the net since 1985 or earlier, we tend to forget that the obvious for us is not common sense anymore in the post-AOL age of the internet. CPAN has very few rules as we'd like to think of it as one of the last and true holdouts of what the 'free' in free software democracy really means. Open Source is rife with cabals and politics, but unless you're an idiot who really goes out of your way to disturb the overall operation of CPAN, you're free to do what you like. With few exceptions, authors can share their non-commercial code freely via CPAN. People complain that there is a lot of crap on CPAN and, well, they're right, but there's a lot of good stuff there too. CPAN isn't an 'enterprise solution' and I've told people countless times over the years that creating bundles of their own favourite modules or mirroring a subset of CPAN is an attractive option, but CPAN itself isn't going to do that work for you. There is one policy that we always thought was obvious, clear and self-evident; no ads. In an age of the internet where just about every page you visit has some sort of eyesore layout with blinking ads, CPAN, CTAN and others like us are sites who refuse to sell our souls to the lure of the easy lucre to be made. We can't prevent people who mirror CPAN from placing ads all over their site, but we won't ever list them in the public mirror index. When a few friends at Sun gave us 3 big systems to rescue the search engine, which was chugging on an old Sun Ultra1 with 4GB of diskspace, we settled on doing a little 'powered by Sun' logo addition to try and show our appreciation since it was a tremendous lifesaver. Sadly, it seems to have given folks the idea that it's open season on advertising via their CPAN mirrors. Over the weekend, the following was added to the comments in the index.html to make the policy more obvious;
I will likely add this to the CPAN FAQ as well. Yes, everybody has to eat, yadda, yadda, yadda. If you can't afford to be a public mirror without advertising, then don't be a mirror. Chris Nandor and OSDN have hosted use.perl.org for years and never has there been a single ad or blinking anything as they've been happy with the acknowledgements in the FAQ. If you enjoy using the search.cpan search engine, Webster University in St. Louis and Ben Hockenhull are the ones to blame and I don't get to St. Louis nearly often enough to buy him the countless beers I owe him in lieu of blinking banner ads. Numerous mirrors spread the CPAN to almost every continent on the globe [anyone in antarctica want to mirror CPAN? :)] without the expectation that someone owes them something for the service. At the very least, they should be able to mirror CPAN from somewhere other than the FUNET mirror and not get someone elses advertisements. It's not an advertising portal or a dessert topping or a floorwax; it's an ftp mirror. Remember that and if you see a mirror with google ads or other advertising, know that it is not to be called a CPAN mirror. Grok Description matches for CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05 GrokA matches for CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05 CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.05The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: |
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