svn commit: r379540 - head/databases/p5-Mojo-Pg

Andrej Zverev az at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 23 16:09:42 UTC 2015


Hi Sunport, Adam

I'm also prefer /pod/ here.
Since as user i want to see text and not to select between Foo::Bar,
Foo::Bar::Sub, Foo::Bar::Sub1.
Anyway switching inside metacpan's web for desired output is just a few clicks.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
>
>> On 23 Feb, 2015, at 8:49, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have no preference but it sounds reasonable to use metacpan.org over search.cpan.org.
>> Based on this conclusion, I would suggest a different URL.
>> In this case, adamw@ chose https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::Pg (the module) as WWW.
>> I do think that https://metacpan.org/release/Mojo-Pg (the release) is better for WWW.
>> What's your opinion?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> sunpoet
>
> When you do a search on metacpan (https://metacpan.org/search?q=Mojo%3A%3APg&size=20) clicking the link brings you to the pod/ page, not the release/ page.
>
> /pod/ is where the synopsis and description are. If I'm hitting WWW to check out a module, I'm more interested in those (descriptive) sections than a list of the files in the distribution.
>
> That's my 2 cents.
>
> # Adam
>
>
> --
> Adam Weinberger
> adamw at adamw.org
> http://www.adamw.org
>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:36 AM, Andrej Zverev <az at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> My 5 rubles here. We need switch to metacpan, since search.cpan.org
>> slow, proprietary and as i can say (i hope this is true) not
>> recommended by Perl community.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
>> >> On 21 Feb, 2015, at 13:06, Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:48 AM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >> Author: adamw
>> >> Date: Sat Feb 21 18:48:29 2015
>> >> New Revision: 379540
>> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/379540
>> >> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r379540/
>> >>
>> >> Log:
>> >>   Use metacpan as the WWW instead of Mojolicious's POD interface.
>> >>
>> >>   Suggested by:         az
>> >>
>> >> Modified:
>> >>   head/databases/p5-Mojo-Pg/pkg-descr
>> >>
>> >> Modified: head/databases/p5-Mojo-Pg/pkg-descr
>> >> ==============================================================================
>> >> --- head/databases/p5-Mojo-Pg/pkg-descr Sat Feb 21 17:50:38 2015        (r379539)
>> >> +++ head/databases/p5-Mojo-Pg/pkg-descr Sat Feb 21 18:48:29 2015        (r379540)
>> >> @@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ Database handles are cached automaticall
>> >>  to increase performance. And you can handle connection timeouts gracefully by
>> >>  holding on to them only for short amounts of time.
>> >>
>> >> -WWW: http://mojolicio.us/perldoc/Mojo/Pg
>> >> +WWW: https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo::Pg
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Do you consider to use "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mojo-Pg/"?
>> >> I see much more ports with search.cpan.org as WWW.
>> >>
>> >> % grep metacpan.org /usr/ports/INDEX-10  | wc -l
>> >>       27
>> >> % grep search.cpan.org /usr/ports/INDEX-10  | wc -l
>> >>     4698
>> >
>> > I've been using metacpan as the WWW because 1) It does a remarkably better job of displaying POD and module info, and 2) when you search on cpan it automatically redirects to metacpan. I'm certainly not married to it but I think it provides a better service to end-users.
>> >
>> > # Adam
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Adam Weinberger
>> > adamw at adamw.org
>> > http://www.adamw.org
>> >
>> >
>


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