Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:31:08 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unifying WWW: pkg-descr lines for cpan ports Message-ID: <20050910223108.GK69537@droso.net> In-Reply-To: <200509102222.j8AMMubj032724@bright.research.att.com> References: <200509102222.j8AMMubj032724@bright.research.att.com>
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--2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 06:22:56PM -0400, Bill Fenner wrote: >=20 > An embarassingly long time ago, the maintainer of search.cpan.org > let me know that the port survey was hammering on it. There were > 3 primary styles of URL being used: >=20 > 1. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Tar/ > 2. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Archive-Tar > 3. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=3DArchive-Tar >=20 > These all point to the same page, but #2 and #3 each requires a > redirect. (At the time, #3 required 2 redirects because of a bug, > which was subsequently fixed.) >=20 > I'd like to unify all these styles into #1. The shell script at > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/fix-search results in the diff > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/fix-search.cpan.org.diff . I like this. Not only is it better for search.cpan, but also gives us more consistency in the ports pkg-descr. Of course, this will have to wait until after the slush, but then I'm all for it. -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing DISCLAIMER: No electrons were harmed while sending this message. --2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDI16sqy9aWxUlaZARArF2AKDiwj3YuvmNXdqUJhMsK4wOxzhoSACg7bDd gJl0PldHq5SVfYwIgTpG3b0= =c4jW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa--
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