On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Salve J Nilsen wrote:
Michael G Schwern wrote:
[..] add a "tags" keyword to META.yml. Have
search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra
information.
What's the main difference between a "tags" keyword and the
already-existing "keywords" field found in META.yml since rev 1.1?
http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html#keywords
See, that's why I CC things around before I go ahead and do
something stupid.
Ok, we'll use that.
Funny. I, who presumably wrote that document, don't even remember it
being there.
I was about to chime in and say that when an author provides their
own tags for their work, I think of them as "keywords". The term
"tags" has a connotation to me of user-generated labeling. For
instance, in academic papers, the author (or perhaps even the
conference/journal editor) writes the keyword field.
I was quite glad to see a few days ago that cpanforum is adding
tags. The obvious problem is that it's just one site, and there may
not be enough mass in the perl community to support various tag sets
at various cpan-related sites. I wonder if there needs to be (at
some point down the road) some distributed merging of tags from the
various tagging-enabled cpan metadata sites like search.cpan,
cpanforum, perldoc, etc.
-Ken
