Graham Barr wrote:
[...]
>> So in documentation pods one can say something like:
>>
>>   When you use Apache::Request
>>   (L<http://search.cpan.org/whatever?Apache::Request>) bla bla...
>>
>> and the user clicking on this link will be taken to
>> http://search.cpan.org/~joesuf/libapreq-1.3/
>> and from there he can decide to read the docs or download the distro 
>> or do other things.
>>
>> That URL in my docs will always work correctly even if the author or 
>> version numbers change.
>>
>> I'd suggest that search.cpan.org will have a new option 'direct' in 
>> addition to module, dist, author and all. So that 
>> http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Apache::Request&mode=direct will 
>> take me direct to the distro containing this package?
> 
> 
> Ick!.  /search is for "searching" not for direct links. Any direct link 
> should have a different URL IMO.

Agreed, I just want to be able to get this link automatically. So as I 
suggested in the other followup, having search return a link to the distro 
that one can copy-n-paste to their docs, will be very helpful. Usually you 
don't care about the distro name (which can also change), but about a specific 
package that you refer to, but want to send users to the latest distro 
containing that package.

> I will add this type of link to my todo list.

Thank you, Graham.

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