>>>>> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:19:11 +0100, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> One of the most common questions I get asked is that someone cannot
> find a module of mine, but they are sure they have looked on CPAN.
> Why ? Because it is in a distribution which is not named after that
> module. eg libnet
> Linking to search.cpan.org/search?module=Net::FTP will solve that.
Not really, as I realized in the meantime, or maybe I'm missing something?
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Net::FTP
will show me a page with 6 modules, but what would seem most useful to
me, would be a link to this page:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet
But dist=libnet is a concept I cannot quite understand. There's some
logic in between I have no access to. Can you help me out?
I just tried
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=^Net::FTP$
which only generated one hit (as expected), but still the interesting
page is one click away.
Do you offer a syntax for "Give me the full libnet page although I
only know that I'm looking for Net::FTP"?
> The other advantage of of search is that they can get to read any docs in
> the distribution without haveing to download/unpack.
A great feature indeed.
--
andreas
