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

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.



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