Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:29:55 +0100 From: andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) To: milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.org, cpan-discuss@perl.org Subject: Re: /modules/by-module not indexing new modules? Message-ID: <87wrkz6amk.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> In-Reply-To: <20110216095034.GF75783@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> (milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:50:34 -0800") References: <20110211004338.GK81862@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <878vxnazqh.fsf@franz.ak.mind.de> <20110216095034.GF75783@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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>>>>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:50:34 -0800, milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu> 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
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