> -----Original Message----- > From: David Cantrell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 7:36 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Repository links in META/Pod should be http:// > > I think that non-http(s) URLs are perfectly legal (eg ftp://) and are > Just Fine in META.yml. It's the end-user's responsibility to have > software that can talk the necessary protocol if he wishes to access > that resource.
Well... I said "to ease accessibility". It's legal of course and ftp:// is as good as http(s) since it is clickable from a webpage unlike git:// ;) > If I care enough about a distribution to want to look at the git or cvs > repo, then I care enough to not just look at search.cpan. However you can just think like this while reading the pod (or Module page) from web: <<'QUOTE'; Hey! This thing has a source code repository. Wonder what does it have besides the CPAN version. Lets click to see. Huh? Can not click and copy/paste does not work either. Waste of time. QUOTE (IMHO) I only care to download the repository only if I am interested in patching/developing the code. If I just want to take a peek I don't bother installing a VCS client and/or cloning the repo. Btw, the success of this "social coding" thing is partly making it easy to Access and "see" the code without doing anything special I guess. You can even see the code from a mobile device. And as a general question: if someone wants to lock down access, why bother giving the repository address in the first place? If there is ALSO a http/ftp address to a repository, why not give it in the first place? > -- > David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" > > The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for > authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place > of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their > households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They > contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties > at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. > -- attributed by Plato to Socrates
