Re: /modules/by-module not indexing new modules?

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig)) Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:55 +0100
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:50:34 -0800, milki <[email protected]> said:

  > On 06:48 Fri 11 Feb     , Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
 >> We are tending to remove the whole directory because it's an insane way
 >> of maintaining information. The canonical way of indexing takes place in
 >> .../CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz

  > Is /modules/by-author also planning to be phased out?

That is just one symlink:

k@pause:/home/ftp/pub/PAUSE/modules$ ls -l by-authors
lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 root 10 2006-03-26 09:30 by-authors -> ../authors

And authors is the real thing. Under modules we have only a dozen files,
thousands of directories and symlinks.

-- 
andreas