Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Perl package manager

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 15:30, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perl package manager

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Product has not been supported for over 2 years, replaced by ActiveState Platform. This was a utility for just one distribution of Perl, not a significant tool IMHO. Teraplane (talk) 05:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. Teraplane (talk) 05:34, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The lack of support for over two years has no bearing on notability, because notability is not temporary: "once a topic has been the subject of 'significant coverage' in accordance with the general notability guideline, it does not need to have ongoing coverage." --Usernameunique (talk) 06:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, passes WP:GNG, per the added sources. SailingInABathTub (talk) 07:38, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, Passes WP:GNG per news coverage in reliable sources such as [1] [2][3][4][5]. Jaysonsands (talk) 10:36, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Meets WP:GNG per sources presented above. DmitriRomanovJr (talk) 13:29, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: ok, accept that article notability is maintained. I have used PPM extensivley as a programmer, as well as other equivalents. Suggest this content be merged with ActivePerl, the parent programming environment this now obsolete utility belongs to. And that page be updated to record that ActiveState Platform is the replacement package manager. If you look at the much more widely used opensource CPAN, it's module installer, CPANPLUS, is described within this page and not allocated to a separate page. Teraplane (talk) 00:23, 8 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.