Apple broke a lot of its developer reference urls... again.

Re:Apple broke a lot of its developer reference urls... again. by jrockway on Sunday August 30, 2009 @03:14AM (#794199)

Incidentally, Google tends to break CPAN's documentation a lot. If I visit the "canonical URL" for a module, something like http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Foo::Bar, it always works. If I google for Foo::Bar, though, sometimes I get linked to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar-0.17, which is 404 because the author deleted version 0.17 and uploaded 0.18.

Amusing that other people have the opposite problem.

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Re:Apple broke a lot of its developer reference urls... again. by windsurfer on Sunday August 30, 2009 @08:31AM (#794408)

You can't delete anything from CPAN.

I've never experienced what you describe.

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Re:Apple broke a lot of its developer reference urls... again. by davecardwell on Sunday August 30, 2009 @05:11PM (#795000)

You can actually. I can’t find a link now, but I’m pretty sure it’s actively encouraged so as not to clutter up the CPAN with obsolete versions of modules.

That’s why we have things like http://backpan.perl.org/

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