>>>>> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:39:06 -0500, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Jul 5, 2006, at 7:47 PM, David Golden wrote: >> Some potential options: >> >> (a) Add "directory" as a synonym to the spec and add "dir" as >> something that CPAN sites recognize. >> >> (b) Change the spec to "directory" -- if CPAN sites are the only >> real user of META.yml no_index, then the pain should be minimal. >> >> (c) Change CPAN sites to follow the spec, despite breaking many >> distributions' current indexing. > Randy Sims keeps some statistics on the META.yml files that exist on > CPAN, perhaps he could tell us the relative frequencies of 'dir' vs. > 'directory' in the wild? The page is there, http://thepierianspring.org/perl/meta/, but does not provide direct statistics so I made up my own. no_index/dir 13 no_index/directory 1397 private/directory 40 David's D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Perl-Dist-Vanilla-5 used both dir and directory:) Those who used just "dir" were ignored up to now: B/BL/BLM/Win32API-Registry-0.27 B/BW/BWARFIELD/NRGN/Test-AutoLoader-0.03 D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Object-LocalVars-0.15 D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Object-LocalVars-0.16 D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Perl-Dist-Vanilla-4 G/GU/GUIDO/Test-Unit-GTestRunner-0.03 G/GU/GUIDO/Test-Unit-GTestRunner-0.04 J/JV/JV/EekBoek-0.91 J/JV/JV/EekBoek-0.60 J/JV/JV/EekBoek-0.61 R/RC/RCAPUTO/POE-0.3502 R/RC/RCAPUTO/POE-Component-Client-Keepalive-0.0801 -- andreas
