Jarkko Hietaniemi writes: >On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:32:58PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: >> Then why not patch checkURL.pl to include your changes? Seems silly >> to have two separate scripts that do basically the same thing. > >checkURL.pl was written for the sole purpose of checking the URLs in >the core distribution. Yes, a large part of the URLs are in the FAQs, >and it certainly could use some fixing... but I still would like to >honor the KISS principle.
Still and all, it sounds like Brian's script has functionality that checkURL.pl could benefit from. Seems to me that it would be better to fix it than to keep shipping a broken script! >Furthermore, checking URLs *once* is a bit silly. There are transient >networking problems all the time, and some the URLs are not meant for >worldwide consumption, such as some of the CPAN mirrors (they are >own-TLD-only). Yes, I agree. URL's should only be removed once it is clear that they are well and truly expired. But if they are valid only in a particular TLD they probably shouldn't be in the global FAQ, at least without some notation indicating the limitations. --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.
