[Mithaldu]

What exactly were you looking for? Which libraries did you find that were alpha or abandoned?

It's highly likely that your experience was simply due to the problem domain you were looking at. If i were to look at something i work with, 3d graphics, my results would look much the same as what you said.

That doesn't mean all of CPAN's like that though.

[Hosohoso]

Web development.

[Mithaldu]

At that time CGI::Application was way out of alpha and actively maintained.

[Hosohoso]

I prefer using libaries instead of developing everything on my own, so usually I use 10-20 libraries for a project beyond a web framework, e.g. credit card management, HTTP library,.... YMMV and if a web framework is all you need, hurray to you.

[Mithaldu]

I asked for "What exactly were you looking for? Which libraries did you find that were alpha or abandoned?"

You only said "Web development."

Now you're addressing completely different problem domains, so if you don't like my answer, than that is because your initial answer to my question wasn't very clear. Were my questions unclear?

[Hosohoso]

Not sure why you agressivly attack me.

But sorry. This was more than a decade ago, I've done dozens and dozens of projects since then with Java, C, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Scala, Javascript, Coffescript and Typescript and more, so I can't remember 'exactly' what libaries I was using more than 10 years ago in some Perl projects.

"Now you're addressing completely different"

I beg to differ, in my book credit card processing during e-commerce checkou and accessing backend services with HTTP are in the problem domain of 'web development', but it might be different for your 'web applications'.

[Mithaldu]

I'm not attacking, i'm trying to figure out your case, because i occasionally hear people voicing a sentiment as in your original post, but never with actual detail. I'm just curious and wish to know more about this. :)

And sure, i didn't really expect you to remember what you did find. But while your response of "web development" does include credit card and http stuff, it only does so roughly. Many many web apps don't use either.

That said, at that time both LWP and Business::CreditCard were in what looks like sensible states: https://metacpan.org/release/GAAS/libwww-perl-5.803 https://metacpan.org/release/IVAN/Business-CreditCard-0.28

Did the search interface at the time not surface them for you, or were they incompatible with what you were trying to do?

[Hosohoso]

"Were my questions unclear?"

Wow, I would never want to work with someone as bossy as you, sir.

[Mithaldu]

What's bossy about having the humility to accept that i might've expressed myself badly and sincerely asking if that's the case?

[smonff]

This is precisely one of the things that CPAN allows.