Thanks.  I'll move the README.pod somewhere innocuous.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Dan Book <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Diab Jerius <djer...@cfa.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> The PDLx-Mask distribution has a README.pod file at the top level, as
>> well as actual module documentation in lib/PDLx/Mask.pm.
>>
>> On the module's main page:
>>
>>   http://search.cpan.org/~djerius/PDLx-Mask-0.01/
>>
>> The PDLx::Mask link goes to README.pod, not to lib/PDLx/Mask.pm
>>
>> That's not quite what I expected, while this
>>
>>   https://metacpan.org/pod/PDLx::Mask
>>
>> is.
>>
>> Should I not be uploading the README.pod file? I use that to
>> generate README and README.md.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diab
>
>
> You should not upload any .pod files in the top level of the distribution,
> as they will get indexed and installed for historical reasons. (Metacpan
> sees the name in that document as PDLx::Mask, so it does not override the
> indexed PDLx::Mask documentation in their index. Search.cpan.org clearly has
> different logic we are not privy to.) README.md and README are fine.
>
> -Dan

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