Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-19 Thread Graham Barr
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 07:21:22PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > - install a squid-accelerator in front of the webserver. The squid can > > run on the same box and is very easy to configure and manage. (It is > > very easy to misconfigure too, so better let me have a look on the > > co

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-18 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> - install a squid-accelerator in front of the webserver. The squid can > run on the same box and is very easy to configure and manage. (It is > very easy to misconfigure too, so better let me have a look on the > configuration some time:) I'm a little bit confused of what value would a sq

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-18 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:45:24 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > No, but not bad performance for an U1/140 since most of the traffic > involves database queries instead of plain html. I've seen sites that do > horrible with less traffic. My point was that it should s

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-18 Thread Graham Barr
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 05:45:24PM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Graham Barr [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>Feel free to make any changes to the Catalog database. The Catalog module does > *>provide a web interface to do this, but I think it will take a lot of > *>work. I am talking wit

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Graham Barr [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Feel free to make any changes to the Catalog database. The Catalog module does *>provide a web interface to do this, but I think it will take a lot of *>work. I am talking with the Catalog people about an API so we can automate web interface bad, automa

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-17 Thread Graham Barr
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:27:18AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > Graham Barr [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *>> > *>> I still love it as one big piece. I wouldn't mind producing additional > *>> lists chapterwise though. Would that fit the bill? > *> > *>The catalog on the fron page at search

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-17 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Graham Barr [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>> *>> I still love it as one big piece. I wouldn't mind producing additional *>> lists chapterwise though. Would that fit the bill? *> *>The catalog on the fron page at search.cpan.org is supposed to be the module *>list split down. BUt it needs work. I c

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-17 Thread Graham Barr
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:10:01AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:45:44 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Concerns are: > > > - It's really big. Might it be time to segment it? > > I still love it as one big piece. I wouldn't mind pro

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-17 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:45:44 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > Concerns are: > - It's really big. Might it be time to segment it? I still love it as one big piece. I wouldn't mind producing additional lists chapterwise though. Would that fit the bill? > - The co

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:07:11 +0100, Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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: >> >> > Linking to search.cpan.org/search?module=Net::FTP will

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Graham Barr
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. >

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> 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 > mo

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Graham Barr wrote: > > I still think it will be best to have it point into the author's > > directory. But I also think it doesn't matter very much what you do. > > Not with intent to be biased, but I think a link to search.cpan.org would be > better. "Me too". in additi

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Graham Barr
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 06:44:08AM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote: > > I still think it will be best to have it point into the author's > directory. But I also think it doesn't matter very much what you do. Not with intent to be biased, but I think a link to search.cpan.org would be better. O

Re: More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
I still think it will be best to have it point into the author's directory. But I also think it doesn't matter very much what you do.

More hyperlinks in the module list

2000-06-16 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
MJD asked me to consider adding a hyperlink to each module's name in the module list pointing to the file on CPAN that contains it. Good idea! Question remains, where exactly should the link point to? After a little poking around, we came to the suggestion to point to the module's page on search.