Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Ken Williams # on Monday 09 July 2007 07:57 pm: >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. I was looking at kobesearch the other day a

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Ken Williams
On Jul 9, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Ken was so far ahead of the curve that the word "tags" didn't exist yet. Sometimes when one is far enough ahead of a curve, one finds oneself behind it. The nature of curves... And didn't talk about it enough, therefore Michael didn't r

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Ken Williams
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-exist

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
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 r

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Salve J Nilsen # on Monday 09 July 2007 09:58 am: >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

Re: [SPAM] Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
Todd Rinaldo wrote: > So I think it's still left to a short discussion as to if/when/how the > META.yml tags get used. Do they override the ones manually entered? Do they > compliment them? Does one have a higher weight than the other? I imagined them on a different axis. In UI terms that'd mean t

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Salve J Nilsen
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.so

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
Michael G Schwern wrote: > The implementation is simple, add a "tags" keyword to META.yml. Have > search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra information. Yes. Have been thinking about this also. > Unless someone screams "NO, STOP!" I intend to add this functionality to > MakeMaker.

RE: [SPAM] Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Todd Rinaldo
I think both of these ideas sound great. I think Michael's got the long term solution and Gabor has the short term solution. Both are probably needed to get this idea off the ground. People need to realize the idea's usefulness then you're not having to 'FORCE' them per-se to add tags at build time

Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

2007-07-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
Andy Armstrong wrote: > It'd be nice if users could add tags too. I hesitate to use the word > 'folksonomy' - but it's out now :) And /then/ all the other mails show up. Carry on folks. Nothing to see here. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten