Retraction of Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US
Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US is a Perl module that interfaces to the Geocoding API of geocoder.us. Unfortunately that disappeared late 2015. Since this module is therefore useless, I am deleting it from CPAN.
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Please don't delete it, but have the last release of it be a "tombstone release", like this one, which explains why the code is gone: https://metacpan.org/pod/Nagios::Plugin
I have stopped the deletion of Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US pending input here.
This module does not seem to me to be in the same position as the one you have cited, in that Nagios::Plugin was potentially the subject of legal difficulties, whereas this module simply does nothing very slowly, and is a waste both of space and of brain bandwidth of people looking for a module they can actually use.
The only reason I can think of for leaving a stub release of my module on CPAN is to mark the name space as having been used. Can you think of others? Or do you think this is a more compelling reason than I do?
I think if I had old code that depending on this I'd like a release that explained why everything is breaking, I think that would help. Plus the old code might serve as an example to someone that needed to mock the interface as part of some long term support situation
I have a similar one, Mojo::FriendFeed is dead because friendfeed is dead. That said, I love the code so I let it sit there, a testament to beautiful code that will no longer be burdened by "users" and "services".
Given the service only recently disappeared, I'd suggest the following:
Thank you all for the feedback, and especially to Neil Bowers for the cookbook. At the moment the only notation about what is going on is in the Changes file, and that is pretty terse. I will make at least one release with "DO NOT USE THIS" all over it.
This is not the first time I have wondered if there is a central repository for hopefully-seldom-used procedures. All I have for the Lancaster Consensus is this link, and I suspect it would be difficult to find if I had not stumbled across it and noted it.
Geo::Coder::Geocoder::US0.006_01 just went to PAUSE. There are no functional changes, I just wanted people to see my attempt to mark this module as deprecated and under threat of retraction.