On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 2:02 PM, David Precious <dav...@preshweb.co.uk>wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:35:10 +0100 > Ricardo Pais Oliveira <rpaisdeolive...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I am using the module WWW::Vimeo::Simple::Video for this small > > personal project http://visualworlds.ricardopaisoliveira.com but it > > stopped working and when I looked on cpan the module was gone. > > > > I'm new to this world and would like to understand better how this > > words: it's frequent to modules on cpan disappear? > > Not very common in my experience - old modules tend to more often be > left to fester than removed :) > > > > Is there a list of > > last deleted modules (explaining the reason)? When a module is > > deleted nothing remains? Not even some landing page where it previous > > was?. > > Anything that was once on CPAN can usually be found on BackPAN. > Great. Is there an easy way to search BackPAN? > > In this case, the latest version on BackPAN is: > > > http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALEXBIO/WWW-Vimeo-Simple-0.14.tar.gz > > The README for that dist shows the module as deprecated: > > > http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/A/AL/ALEXBIO/WWW-Vimeo-Simple-0.14.readme > > If you're curious about why it was removed from CPAN, you could try > contacting the author themselves. I would imagine, though, that the > author decided there were better options out there, and no longer > wished to maintain their module. > I doubt that. I can't find any implementation of the Vimeo API done in Perl besides that retired module, that implemented only the Simple API ( https://developer.vimeo.com/apis). > > Cheers > > Dave P Thanks.
