Johan Vromans writes:
>> But as other responses have pointed out already , there is no
>> cpan-netiquette that demands to keep the number of indexed modules
>> low.
>
> As I understood from the OP it applies to the case where
> * you have a module that implements public functionality
> * this mo
Andreas Koenig writes:
> But as other responses have pointed out already , there is no
> cpan-netiquette that demands to keep the number of indexed modules
> low.
As I understood from the OP it applies to the case where
* you have a module that implements public functionality
* this module requ
Leon Timmermans writes:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
>> If you really want to, you can disable it by inserting a newline
>> between the package keyword and the name. However, I'm not really
>> seeing the point of pretending your distribution is one package when
>> i
I was unaware that we had any support for keywords. But even if we do, a distro
author's idea of what the keywords are may not match the users' or the users'
expectations of how to search the cpan. If keywords exist then they might be a
good *addition* to the CPAN search tools but can't replace
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:24:27PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > I have a distribution (Audio::TagLib, FWIW) that has a large number of
> > modules, but only the main module is of any interest to the index. What
> > do I need to do in th
On Thu, September 20, 2012 9:45 am, Johan Vromans wrote:
> David Cantrell writes:
>
>> I would say that it's actually *useful* to index them all. That way
>> your dist will show up if people search for 'FLAC' (to pick just one
>> example), which is probably a Good Thing.
>
> That would be the pur
David Cantrell writes:
> I would say that it's actually *useful* to index them all. That way
> your dist will show up if people search for 'FLAC' (to pick just one
> example), which is probably a Good Thing.
That would be the purpose of keywords. Not indexes by package name.
-- Johan
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> If you really want to, you can disable it by inserting a newline
> between the package keyword and the name. However, I'm not really
> seeing the point of pretending your distribution is one package when
> it in fact isn't. YMMV.
Replied
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I have a distribution (Audio::TagLib, FWIW) that has a large number of
> modules, but only the main module is of any interest to the index. What
> do I need to do in the construction of the release to tell indexing not
> to bother?
If you r
