[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D Foy) writes: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There's already a Porting/checkURL.pl tool in the standard distribution. > > Do we need a separate one for the faq? > > or a better one for the FAQ, which lives in a different place. > > problems with the perlfaq: > for some reasons the repository with which i and others work > is not in the standard distribution repository, so when i > check out the perlfaq module, i don't get any tools with it. > > problems with checkURL.pl > + it's not in 5.6.1, so i didn't know about it (but now i do :) > + it hard codes the files to check, and checks all of them > + downloads each resource every time (bad for slow connections > i get in hotels) > + only checks the root path for a domain, not the URL path. > i think someone need to fix the regex, or explain why it is > the way that it is. > > what i want to do: > + check only the files i specify > + check the full URL > + run without output in some cases (like in make, where i want it > to just fail if i do something like `make checkurlquiet`)
Then why not patch checkURL.pl to include your changes? Seems silly to have two separate scripts that do basically the same thing. I don't think it should be stored with the FAQ, BTW: I think it should be stored in the CPAN scripts archive! --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
