Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

Why do you need the link to the latest version in META.yml?

...

I think embedding the name into the file is a bad idea from the maintenance 
point of view. But using the package's path should be just perfect. e.g.:

http://search.cpan.org/~WHOEVER/META.yaml-1.1/META-spec.html

That would mean, uploading META.yaml as a package with perl module versioning 
and Makefile.PL, so that search.cpan.org will arrange for the above URL.

The only thing to remember is that all versions must be kept on CPAN and not 
removed, if someone refers to an older version.


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