Author: ken Date: Wed Aug 22 13:57:51 2018 New Revision: 20373 Log: Revert a WIP file that got into my last commit.
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/prog/perl-modules.xml Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/prog/perl-modules.xml ============================================================================== --- trunk/BOOK/general/prog/perl-modules.xml Wed Aug 22 13:54:35 2018 (r20372) +++ trunk/BOOK/general/prog/perl-modules.xml Wed Aug 22 13:57:51 2018 (r20373) @@ -156,7 +156,10 @@ library, look at the comments in the code Also, for external modules where we link to CPAN without a current version, - prefer to go to https://metacpan.org/, find the module and link to it. + prefer to use http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Name if that works, rather + than pointing to a maintainers home directory : the maintainer for a package + sometimes changes. Also, use '-' rather than '::' because '-' will go + directly to the page instead of providing a list of possible matches. Where a dependency is used by multiple other modules on this page, but not by packages elsewhere in the book, promote it to a top-level entry so that it can @@ -211,10 +214,8 @@ <para>For unversioned modules on this page, if you are building without using the CPAN automated install you should check when the current version was released. If it is recent you should review its 'Changes' and - 'Dependencies' links at http://metacpan.org in case the dependencies - have altered. The BLFS editors cannot keep the details of these 'external' - modules up to date, some change frequently. But the links below go to - specific versions which are known to build with BLFS-8.3</para> + 'Dependencies' links at http://search.cpan.org in case the dependencies + have altered.</para> </note> <!-- Archive::Zip --> @@ -243,8 +244,8 @@ <literallayout>&Archive-Zip-download-http; MD5 sum: &Archive-Zip-md5sum;</literallayout> <itemizedlist> - <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GF/GFRANKS/Test-MockModule-0.15.tar.gz";>Test::MockModule</ulink> - This uses the <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/> -(https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/G/GF/GFRANKS/Test-MockModule-0.15.tar.gz)</literallayout> + <listitem><literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/";>Test::MockModule</ulink> - This uses the <xref linkend="perl-build-install"/> +(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockModule/)</literallayout> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <literallayout><ulink url="http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/";>SUPER</ulink> (http://search.cpan.org/dist/SUPER/) (for the testsuite)</literallayout> -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
