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From:Graham Barr Date:Mon Dec  8 15:12:35 2003
Subject:Re: linking to PODs on search.cpan.org (was Re: META.yml Update Proposal)
On 8 Dec 2003, at 21:55, Stas Bekman wrote:

> Graham Barr wrote:
>> On 8 Dec 2003, at 20:42, Stas Bekman wrote:
>>> Also Graham, it'd be really nice to have search.cpan.org support 
>>> 'exact match', many times I want to link to a module in the docs 
>>> using search.cpan.org, and ?query=Foo::Bar is not the best choice as 
>>> it gives you more than one matches most of the time and sometimes 
>>> the right choice is not on the top. I think only when you say: 
>>> ?query=Foo::Bar&mode=module it gives you that module first (e.g. 
>>> search for CGI). But I want to be able to link directly to the 
>>> latest version (that you get to after following one of the links 
>>> from the search's output) and not search output.
>> If you are trying to link to the POD of a module, then you should be 
>> using /perldoc?CGI
>
> No, I want to be able to link to the distribution dir, e.g.:
> http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.00/
> without that -3.00 version in the path, so it'll always point to the 
> latest distro.

   http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI.pm/

Graham.
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