Adam Kennedy wrote:
This is a super idea. It might also be nice to allow cpan.org
users the
ability to associate tags (which could be overridden by the author) with
modules which don't have them.
That's the main problem with having tags in the META.yml.
The tags can only be
Ken Williams wrote:
I was about to chime in and say that when an author provides their own
tags for their work, I think of them as keywords. The term tags has
a connotation to me of user-generated labeling. For instance, in
academic papers, the author (or perhaps even the conference/journal
On 7/8/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's un-overload the distribution name by providing another axis by which an
author can categorize their module. The single most dominant organizational
tool of the web: tags. For a large, wide, decentralized library its simple
and the
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 12:44:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
One of the most common cries I hear from CPAN users is that they have trouble
finding modules. A CPAN module is largely found by its distribution name.
Names have to be unique and short which tends to hurt its descriptiveness.
: Monday, July 09, 2007 12:35 AM
To: Michael G Schwern
Cc: List - Module-Build; makemaker; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPAM] Re: Tags for CPAN modules.
On 7/8/07, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's un-overload the distribution name by providing
another axis by
which an author
Todd Rinaldo wrote:
So I think it's still left to a short discussion as to if/when/how the
META.yml tags get used. Do they override the ones manually entered? Do they
compliment them? Does one have a higher weight than the other?
I imagined them on a different axis. In UI terms that'd mean
Michael G Schwern wrote:
[..] add a tags keyword to META.yml. Have
search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra information.
What's the main difference between a tags keyword and the already-existing
keywords field found in META.yml since rev 1.1?
On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Salve J Nilsen wrote:
Michael G Schwern wrote:
[..] add a tags keyword to META.yml. Have
search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra
information.
What's the main difference between a tags keyword and the
already-existing
Hi Michael
One of the most common cries I hear from CPAN users is that they have
trouble
finding modules. A CPAN module is largely found by its distribution name.
Right! And surely we can all recall cases of surprise upon encountering
useful modules whose name - at least initially - was
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
One of the most common cries I hear from CPAN users is that they
have trouble
finding modules. A CPAN module is largely found by its
distribution name.
Names have to be unique and short which tends to hurt its
descriptiveness.
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