On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:27:20PM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> 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
That does a search for 'Net::FTP' within the name. The link I gave searches
for a module with the name '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
As the is only one distribution for the module Net::FTP, that is
what you will get
> 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"?
yes the link I gave, providing there is only one distribution.
Graham.
