Author: kwilliams Date: Fri Nov 3 18:53:57 2006 New Revision: 8006 Modified: Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.html Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.pod
Log: We actually do know what people do with the no_index field Modified: Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.html ============================================================================== --- Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.html (original) +++ Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.html Fri Nov 3 18:53:57 2006 @@ -392,9 +392,11 @@ (i.e. implementation artifacts) that are not of interest to searching and indexing tools. This is useful when no <code>provides</code> field is present.</p> -<p><em>(Note: I'm not actually sure who looks at this field, or exactly -what they do with it. This spec could be off in some way from actual -usage.)</em></p> +<p>For example, <code>search.cpan.org</code> excludes items listed in <code>no_index</code> +when searching for POD, meaning files in these directories will not +converted to HTML and made public - which is useful if you have +example or test PODs that you don't want the search engine to go +through.</p> <p> </p> <h3><a name="file">file</a></h3> Modified: Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.pod ============================================================================== --- Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.pod (original) +++ Module-Build/trunk/website/META-spec.pod Fri Nov 3 18:53:57 2006 @@ -350,9 +350,11 @@ and indexing tools. This is useful when no C<provides> field is present. -I<(Note: I'm not actually sure who looks at this field, or exactly -what they do with it. This spec could be off in some way from actual -usage.)> +For example, C<search.cpan.org> excludes items listed in C<no_index> +when searching for POD, meaning files in these directories will not +converted to HTML and made public - which is useful if you have +example or test PODs that you don't want the search engine to go +through. =head3 file
