Perl modules with their own web sites

Some Perl libraries (or frameworks if you wish) have their own web sites asides from Meta::CPAN that allow customization and more "personalization".

For example:

• Perl Dancer
• Mojolicous
• Catalyst
• perlbrew
• cpanm
• Plack
• Perl::Critic
• App::TimmeTracker
• Rexify
• PDL
• wxPerl
• Pherkin a.k.a. Test::BDD::Cucumber
• Padre

It is very easy to create a static web site free of charge on GitHub pages, but I could understand if people were reluctant to promote a URL that is based on a commercial service.

On the other hand they might not want to spend 10-20 USD/year on a domain name.

It might be interesting if they could get a subdomain name under perl.org or maybe metacpan.org that would be set up to DNS resolve to the GitHub pages IP address or to some other similar service.

Comments

[🌌 Sébastien Feugère ☔]

Worth mentioning Type::Tiny and Zydeco by the same person. Really, the second one is an incredible piece of Modern Perl™ marketting.

Note the subdomain technique that doesn't imply extra cost for each website.

[Johan Lindstrom]

Yeah, the Zydeco one is very nice!

[Michael Dingler]

Also Catalyst and Template Toolkit. Both not necessarily the newest pages and thus the best advertisements…

[Dave Cross]

More detail on the GitHub Pages route.

dev.to/davorg/simple-cpan-module-w...

[E. Choroba]

The previous maintainer of xsh used to keep the page at sourceforge, I prefer GitHub Pages.

[Yuki Kimoto]

I also write Github Page document. Giblog and SPVM.