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CPAN is great, but it has become quite large (and somewhat haphazardly
organized). The "search.cpan.org" interface has not changed
significantly (except for the temporary orange color) since I first
played around with Perl five years ago. This interface is rather
crude, apparently supporting only simple (but somewhat ordered) OR
searches, without support for notations often found in other search
engines, such as phrase quoting or "+".
The CPAN FAQs mention three other search methods. One is a broken link,
and the other two offer no advantages that I can see. I've played
around with Google's "Advanced Search" against this domain, but the
signal-to-noise ratio is often quite low.
There is often a great Perl module out there that does whatever I want,
but finding it can be really dicey unless I get lucky guessing the
keywords.
Is there a better way to search CPAN??? It seems like a vast treasure
without a map!
organized). The "search.cpan.org" interface has not changed
significantly (except for the temporary orange color) since I first
played around with Perl five years ago. This interface is rather
crude, apparently supporting only simple (but somewhat ordered) OR
searches, without support for notations often found in other search
engines, such as phrase quoting or "+".
The CPAN FAQs mention three other search methods. One is a broken link,
and the other two offer no advantages that I can see. I've played
around with Google's "Advanced Search" against this domain, but the
signal-to-noise ratio is often quite low.
There is often a great Perl module out there that does whatever I want,
but finding it can be really dicey unless I get lucky guessing the
keywords.
Is there a better way to search CPAN??? It seems like a vast treasure
without a map!