Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-06-30 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Paul Fenwick # on Monday 30 June 2008 17:17: >Let's pretend you're J. Average Hacker.  You've popped over to CPAN... >http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Moose-0.51/lib/Moose.pm Let's pretend you're J. Average Hacker. You've been told that http://search.cpan.org is "CPAN"... Game ove

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-06-30 Thread Andy Lester
On Jun 30, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: All suggestions involving search.cpan.org fall in the category that nobody can *do* anything about (except asking Graham Barr to do it.) Right. Which is another reason I've started up rethinking-cpan. I'm going to be more stuff on that so

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-07-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 06:46:08PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > # from Paul Fenwick > # on Monday 30 June 2008 17:17: > > Let's pretend you're J. Average Hacker. You've popped over to CPAN... > > http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Moose-0.51/lib/Moose.pm > Let's pretend you're J. Average Hacker. You

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-07-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 08:48:28PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > Right. Which is another reason I've started up rethinking-cpan ... How do I subscribe to that list? -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age I apologize if I offended you personally, I intended to do it professional

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-07-01 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 1 Jul 2008, at 14:35, David Cantrell wrote: Even if you had the source code, it would still be up to him to add your patch to the copy of the code that runs that particular site. In reality, if people suggest things, and he thinks they're a good idea, then he does them. Especially if it's

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-07-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:42:55PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > On 1 Jul 2008, at 14:35, David Cantrell wrote: > >Even if you had the source code, it would still be up to him to add > >your patch to the copy of the code that runs that particular site. In > >reality, if people suggest things, a

Re: great search.cpan.org ideas

2008-07-01 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 1 Jul 2008, at 15:57, David Cantrell wrote: That's true - but it discourages people from experimenting with new UI ideas like, say, integrating tagging into s.c.o. It'd be great if people could download WWW::Search::CPAN::Org, install it locally and play with it. Fair point. Mind you, I d