"Tels" <nospam-pg-ab...@bloodgate.com> writes:
> On Wed, April 25, 2018 12:35 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Agreed on pointing to cpan, but that page is pretty confusing if you're
>> looking for a non-bleeding-edge version. I suggest linking to
>> https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/S/SH/SHANCOCK/
>> which presents a handy directory listing.
> Linking to the author directory can be pretty confusing, because if a new
> (co-)-maintainer releases something, it will end up not in this directory.
As long as we're pointing at a specific past release, this seems like not
much of a problem. Also, if I understood correctly, we need to expose
the author name as part of the install-with-cpan recipe, so taking it
out of the other URL seems like little advantage.
regards, tom lane
