From what I have been able to gather, MetaCPAN was the planned replacement for search.cpan.org and the reason it took forever to transition was to guarantee a p

From what I have been able to gather, MetaCPAN was the planned replacement for search.cpan.org and the reason it took forever to transition was to guarantee a perfect handover and minimal to no issues(linkrot, API problems, etc) upon the shutdown of the search.cpan.org servers. They spent a good deal of time making a perfect drag and drop replacement and I think it went very well.