Re^3: Proposal - Update shortcuts pointing to cpan.org to link to mcpan.org

Please elaborate further!

I gave an example, and linked another example

Link Shortcut for referencing specific sections of CPAN documents

The example made verbose

(?|pattern)
(?|pattern)

[href://http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/perlre#%28?%7cpattern%29|(?|pat
+tern)]
[href://https://metacpan.org/pod/perlre#pattern1|(?|pattern)]
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Its pod-literalish link versus transformed-for-some-rfc-email

Built-in linkrot is weak ... with that keyword another example Re: Linking from POD (artificial linkrot, Pod::Simple::XHTML bugs)

Breaking your own links because new version came out is weak

Having to UTSL of a webpage to figure out anchor/id is weak (could be considered a browser problem , which a bookmarklet could remedy, but copy/paste should suffice)

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Re^4: Proposal - Update shortcuts pointing to cpan.org to link to mcpan.org by LanX (Saint) on Jun 04, 2014 at 12:54 UTC
Thanks, I can see clearer now. I agree that `[mod://...#deeplink]` is broken, (why on hell is the `#` escaped ?) I didn't see that before (also partly b/c my nodelet hack automatically redirected them) But beside the broken PM-tag are deep-links to headings quite consistent ( seems only whitespace in anchors is `-` here and `_` there) Talking about deep-links to items ... ... well I ignored their existence. Never seen them used and I agree with tobyinc to avoid them b/c of inconsistencies. In CPAN you need to read the source to find them, cause they are not indexed in the TOC. So almost nobody would link them. METACPAN has a CSS trick to show those hidden anchors on mouseover. AND I agree that the naming scheme is not very reliable. BUT this should only be a problem when translating from META to CPAN. So in short, "secret" deep-links should be avoided anyway and translating heading-anchors shouldn't be a problem, but the `[mod://]` markup is broken anyway. Cheers Rolf (addicted to the Perl Programming Language)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Proposal - Update shortcuts pointing to cpan.org to link to mcpan.org
by LanX (Saint) on Jun 04, 2014 at 12:54 UTC

I agree that [mod://...#deeplink] is broken, (why on hell is the # escaped ?)

I didn't see that before (also partly b/c my nodelet hack automatically redirected them)

But beside the broken PM-tag are deep-links to headings quite consistent ( seems only whitespace in anchors is - here and _ there)

Talking about deep-links to items ...

... well I ignored their existence. Never seen them used and I agree with tobyinc to avoid them b/c of inconsistencies.

In CPAN you need to read the source to find them, cause they are not indexed in the TOC. So almost nobody would link them.

METACPAN has a CSS trick to show those hidden anchors on mouseover. AND I agree that the naming scheme is not very reliable. BUT this should only be a problem when translating from META to CPAN.

So in short, "secret" deep-links should be avoided anyway and translating heading-anchors shouldn't be a problem, but the [mod://] markup is broken anyway.

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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