This doesn't sound like a reason to hate search.cpan.org. To me, it sounds like your contractor was awfully lazy or underinformed. They didn't do the basic le

This doesn't sound like a reason to hate search.cpan.org. To me, it sounds like your contractor was awfully lazy or underinformed. They didn't do the basic level of due diligence to determine if they had the most recent version of software -- nor were they even aware of the module installers. I don't use Python or Node.js all that much, but at least I'm aware of pip and npm.