Re: linking to PODs on search.cpan.org (was Re: META.yml Update Proposal)

On 12/8/2003 4:55 PM, 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.
> 

Actually, it does work <http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm/>, or is this 
not what you meant?