On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:04:58PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi writes: > >On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:32:58PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > >> Then why not patch checkURL.pl to include your changes? Seems silly > >> to have two separate scripts that do basically the same thing. > > > >checkURL.pl was written for the sole purpose of checking the URLs in > >the core distribution. Yes, a large part of the URLs are in the FAQs, > >and it certainly could use some fixing... but I still would like to > >honor the KISS principle. > > Still and all, it sounds like Brian's script has functionality that > checkURL.pl could benefit from. Seems to me that it would be better > to fix it than to keep shipping a broken script!
It's broken for Brian, it has worked fine for me :-) > >Furthermore, checking URLs *once* is a bit silly. There are transient > >networking problems all the time, and some the URLs are not meant for > >worldwide consumption, such as some of the CPAN mirrors (they are > >own-TLD-only). > > Yes, I agree. URL's should only be removed once it is clear that they > are well and truly expired. But if they are valid only in a > particular TLD they probably shouldn't be in the global FAQ, at least I can't really bring myself to cry much if someone from outside .au gets denied at an .au mirror... > without some notation indicating the limitations. > > --Bill. > > -- > William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
