[gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Christian Hartmann]

Howdy folks,

nothing too important but it just came to my mind again: Can we please agree 
on a policy about the urls we put in the HOMEPAGE var in our cpan ebuilds?

I usually use "http://search.cpan.org/~author/${P}/" and found it quite handy 
so far. Today I saw a commit by our new friend yuval whose solution was even 
better: "http://search.cpan.org/site/${P}/" - This way we don't need to 
change the url when the maintainer of the package changes. (I saw this 
happening quite often lately.)

Thoughts?

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Re: [gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Antoine Raillon]

Quoting Christian Hartmann <ian@gentoo.org>:

hello world ;)

> Thoughts?

I wasn't sure the /site/ thing worked everywhere so i chose some  
random packages in CPAN and tried. The victim are DBM-DBass and  
DBD-mysql.

http://search.cpan.org/~spiderboy/DBM-DBass-0.54/ => exists
http://search.cpan.org/site/DBM-DBass-0.54/ => Internal Server Error

http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-3.0006/ => exists
http://search.cpan.org/site/DBD-mysql-3.0006/ => 500

and even without versionning :

http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql/ => exists
http://search.cpan.org/site/DBD-mysql/ => 500

so the /site/ option is nice and can avoid problems, but it's not  
always working ;)
maybe it can be used when available, with a fallback on the ~author  
page if the site one doesn't work ?

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Re: [gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Yuval Yaari]

Antoine Raillon wrote:
> I wasn't sure the /site/ thing worked everywhere so i chose some 
> random packages in CPAN and tried. The victim are DBM-DBass and 
> DBD-mysql.
s/site/dist/g;

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Re: [gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Yuval Yaari]

Christian Hartmann wrote:
> Thoughts?
>   

I obviously prefer the dist (not site :)) way...

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Re: [gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Antoine Raillon]

Quoting Yuval Yaari <yuval@gentoo.org>:

> s/site/dist/g;

erhm.. well.. ian's mail misleaded me ;)
that's the problem when you just have the web and nothing else in a  
Windows environment ;)

+1 for the /dist/ ;p

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Re: [gentoo-perl] HOMEPAGE url for CPAN packages

[Elfyn McBratney]

Ciao,

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:50:07PM +0200, Antoine Raillon wrote:
 > Quoting Yuval Yaari <yuval@gentoo.org>:
 > 
 > >s/site/dist/g;
 > 
 > erhm.. well.. ian's mail misleaded me ;)
 > that's the problem when you just have the web and nothing else in a  
 > Windows environment ;)
 > 
 > +1 for the /dist/ ;p

+1 from me too.

Best,
Elfyn

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Re: [gentoo-perl] url for CPAN packages

[Michael Cummings]

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Elfyn McBratney wrote:
| Ciao,
|
| On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:50:07PM +0200, Antoine Raillon wrote:
|  > Quoting Yuval Yaari <yuval@gentoo.org>:
|  >
|  > >s/site/dist/g;
|  >
|  > erhm.. well.. ian's mail misleaded me ;)
|  > that's the problem when you just have the web and nothing else in a
|  > Windows environment ;)
|  >
|  > +1 for the /dist/ ;p
|
| +1 from me too.
|
| Best,
| Elfyn
|

The only caveat to all of this (both old way and /dist/${P}) is that it
does break stdout in the portage search tools since they aren't sourcing
the ebuilds (so they literally print HOMEPAGE: mirror://cpan/dist/${P}
instead of dist/some-package).

That said, i haven't exactly jumped to change old habits either :)

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