On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 21:02 -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > IIRC, there was once a 44-character limit to the length of a CPAN module > abstract: the brief description which follows the module's name in the > NAME section of POD. > > But when I uploaded a module a couple of hours ago, I noted that, at > least on search.cpan.org, an abstract much longer than 44 characters was > fully displayed. > > Has this restriction been relaxed? Did it ever exist? I searched > perlmod, perlnewmod, perlmodstyle, etc., as well as googling this > group's archives, but came up with very little re module abstracts? >
This was probably for the sake of the text-only modules list, which has since fallen out of maintenance. Sam.
