I'd like to link directly to the most recent version of documentation for a particular module -- for example, I'd like to have a link that takes me directly to http://search.cpan.org/~dwheeler/SVN-Notify-2.78/lib/SVN/Notify.pm that will automatically switch over to pointing to SVN::Notify version 2.79 (or greater) once a new release is made.

All the examples I've found on the net (after an admittedly short search) involve linking to search.cpan.org with an embedded query string, but this isn't what I want. I don't want to point to search results, I'd like to point directly to a particular piece of documentation, but always get the most recent version of it.

Is there any standard way of doing this?

In reply to canonical way to make stable link to most recent version of CPAN module documentation? by genehack

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