At 00:36 22.06.2002, Randy Kobes wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote:
>
> > At 23:28 21.06.2002, Randy Kobes wrote:
> > > [ ... ] I pieced together
> > >     http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/apache
> >
> > Great work Randy! Thanks!
> >
> > >which might give a rough idea of this (based on the existing
> > >apache module-list subcategories). Whatever info gathered could
> > >then be used to update an apache modules list, which potentially
> > >could be fed into the main CPAN modules list to keep the
> > >Apache::* section current.
> > >
> > >Of course, for convenience, security, etc., it'd be better if
> > >such a thing was incorporated into PAUSE, but this'd be
> > >non-trivial.
> >
> > Yes, that's why I contacted [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prematurely, I know). The
> > problem is really that such a system would allow anyone to change the
> > category etc.. without any way for us to  check that it's the correct
> > person. The easiest IMO would be to plug into PAUSE, or even just host it
> > on PAUSE and take advantage of the Auth routines already in place there. Or
> > maybe we need a PAUSE Passport ? :-)
>
>A variation of this might be to do like the current scripts/
>hiearchy on CPAN does - instruct authors to have in their .pm
>files some recognizeable pod like
>
>    =head1 APACHE CATEGORY
>
>    Databases, Miscellaneous
>
>    =head1 MODPERL VERSION
>
>    Any
>
>and then parse these files to extract the information for an
>apache module list.

Might be complicated and many would forget IMO.


-- 
Per Einar Ellefsen
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