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CPAN Search is a search engine for the distributions, modules, docs, and ID's on CPAN.

freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software.

I love CPAN and I love Freshmeat. The reason I love both (and not just one) is because, to me, they fulfill different needs. When I want to know about Perl modules, I'll go on a hunt on the CPAN fields of glory. When in need of specific software, freshmeat is my haven.

Recently, I have come to find out more and more Perl module authors list their gems on both sites.

There's nothing wrong with a little extra Perl promotion, yet why do they mess up search results with all this? Any half-sane Perl scripter will visit CPAN in a heartbeat and not even care about freshmeat, while most people who do launch queries at freshmeat, don't care about Perl modules.

I seem to have more complaints on freshmeat. This is because it simply takes me too much time to wade through piles of non-interesting projects to find what I'm really looking for.

Maybe Perl authors should let freshmeat do what it is supposed to do; providing "the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software, themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software". In my humble opinion, that does not include Perl modules (how great they might be).