> > > If size is a problem for mirrors, then a shorter version, with just links > > > to the docs, would work, maybe the search.cpan.org results for example: > > > http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.40/ could be statically generated to > > > just http://cpan.org/docs/DBI/index.html > > > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/ works.
Oh, I did not know that either. I have just update a number of my links to use this URL style and suggested to other to do the same on our small mailing list. > > Should we spread the word (through the FAQ? I can post something on > PerlMonks) that this should be the proper way to reference modules? I think it would be great. Actually now I looked at search.cpan.org with my Googles on and I noticed that after clicking on one of the categories on the home page (e.g. Perl6) in the list of the individual modules I see links like this: http://search.cpan.org/search%3fmodule=Perl6::Classes Maybe these could be replaced by such links: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Classes Similarly after clicking on the "Authors" link you get to a page with all the letters on like this: http://search.cpan.org/author/?A maybe it could be written like http://search.cpan.org/author/A (which does not work right now, so this would require some change in the URL processor too). In general Graham could improve a bit the Googleability of search.cpan.org by some small changes. IMHO and if I don't miss some important aspect. I think it is worth the effort (especially because it is not me who is doing it :-) Thanks Graham ! Gabor
