* David Golden <[email protected]> [2009-04-05T17:29:05] > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Barbie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not necessarily need for the key to the metabase, the path is just > > another attribute or fact. > > Yes -- though I'm not sure if RJBS accounts for it in URI::cpan. From the > standpoint of a distfile resource, the first part of the path is the author > name and the last part is the archive file with zero or more subdirectories > in between. In the end, it's a path under authors/id (with the appropriate > initial letter hashing).
Right. A deep path probably doesn't work in distfile URI yet, but I know it needs testing and plan to account for it. > For the purpose of URI::cpan -- "author" is really release manager -- > the person who uploaded the distribution archive file to PAUSE. But > since that's how CPAN refers to it, we keep the "author" name with > that meaning. I would be happy to make it "uploader." -- rjbs
