At 22:22 22.06.2002, Randy Kobes wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote:
>
> > At 00:36 22.06.2002, Randy Kobes wrote:
> > >
> > >A variation of this might be to do like the current scripts/
> > >hiearchy on CPAN does - instruct authors to have in their .pm
> > >files some recognizeable pod like
> > >
> > >    =head1 APACHE CATEGORY
> > >
> > >    Databases, Miscellaneous
> > >
> > >    =head1 MODPERL VERSION
> > >
> > >    Any
> > >
> > >and then parse these files to extract the information for an
> > >apache module list.
> >
> > Might be complicated and many would forget IMO.
>
>not sure for whom you mean complicated - not for authors,
>presumably, and it's also not too difficult on the parsing side
>(eg, we extract related information on new uploads as part of our
>cpan search engine). And this pod system functions quite well for
>$CPAN/scripts/.
>
>There is a problem about people forgetting, true, but that would
>apply for anything ... I think though it'd be good to come up
>with something that would accommodate those that, for whatever
>reason, can't or don't want to follow a module naming convention.

Hmm, yeah. You're probably right anyway. Will think about it.


-- 
Per Einar Ellefsen
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