On 12/8/2003 9:23 AM, Graham Barr wrote:

> On 6 Dec 2003, at 13:57, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
>> =head2 meta-spec
>>
>> Example:
>>
>>   meta-spec: <http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec.html> - v1.1
> 
> 
> I think it would be better to have the version number in the url. So 
> someone with an old file can see what spec it conforms to.
> 
> Graham.

Assuming we follow Stas' suggestion of storing the spec on CPAN and 
referring to it by a CPAN search URL (and I think we should), I see no 
way to reference an older version because of the way the search engine 
works. Search always brings up the latest version regardless of what you 
ask for. We could provide a direct link to the relevant version of the 
spec, but then we would need to also provide a link to the latest 
version somewhere.

In my proposal I placed version specs next to each field to indicate at 
what version it was added; I think this does address your concern to 
some degree. At the moment I can't seem to think of any better solution.

Regards,
Randy.