Re^3: metacpan link shortcut? (both)

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Re^4: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by jdporter (Paladin) on Jul 12, 2011 at 19:24 UTC
So then what? metacpan:// becomes simply an alias of cpan://? (though possibly vice versa under the hood)	[reply]
Re^5: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by Perlbotics (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2011 at 20:54 UTC
I would also suggest not to introduce yet another alias but let the user decide which "CPAN-search engine" to use. Along the line the Display Settings lets the user select the language preference for WikiMedia links, the user could select his/her preferred CPAN-search engine (cpan, metacpan, etc.). So the one and only `cpan://` tag is dynamically mapped according to the users individual preferences. ~~That would leave 16k zombies (half ;-) alive.~~(misread quote ;-) Although this approach might cost some additional cycles. If one wants to add another level of complication, user preferences can be ignored if a node is older than July, 2011 or so.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by spazm (Monk) on Nov 11, 2011 at 23:02 UTC
Yes, search is also much improved over search.cpan.org, but it's the browsing experience improvements (and rapid development of new features) that have won me over. metacpan is a much nicer module and code browsing experience. metacpan has sponsors for hosting, bandwidth, and DNS. So it is, at the least, not running on someone's personal machine. The project has had 57 individual contributors. I hope this bodes well for it staying around to the level of "permanence."	[reply]
Re^5: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 12, 2011 at 02:10 UTC
Where is documented the query syntax? I don't find any documentation at all. (The FAQ is all meta stuff.) TIA.	[reply]
Re^6: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2011 at 08:35 UTC
A little testing reveals search within a distribution https://metacpan.org/search?q=dist:MetaCPAN-API&q=search A little source diving (MetaCPAN::Web::Controller::Search) reveals search for an author (author results on top of the other search results) https://metacpan.org/search?q=author:mark What, I just found out I like about metacpan, is the dependencies are listed for each module/distribution right on the page, and the reverse dependencies are a click away -- where as on search.cpan.org, its always an extra click (a slow one)	[reply]
Re^7: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 12, 2011 at 13:38 UTC
Re^8: metacpan link shortcut? (both) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 13, 2011 at 00:59 UTC
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