cpan link not stuck to a version

[jid...@jidanni.org]

I want to make a link the Win32::Shortcut web page on CPAN to put into
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_shortcut#External_links , but
http://search.cpan.org/src/JDB/libwin32-0.28/Shortcut/docs/index.html or
http://search.cpan.org/src/JDB/libwin32-0.28/Shortcut/ have the
version hardwired in them: my link will stale soon. But
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=Win32::Shortcut brings up a wad of
others too on the same page.

[A. Sinan Unur]

jid...@jidanni.org wrote in news:87ej40p...@jidanni.org:

http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.07/

Those pages have links to all versions. When version 0.08 is released, the
page will display a note to that effect. E.g., compare to:

http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.06/

Sinan
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[jid...@jidanni.org]

>>>>> "ASU" == A Sinan Unur <1u...@llenroc.ude.invalid> writes:

ASU> http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.07/

ASU> Those pages have links to all versions. When version 0.08 is released, the
ASU> page will display a note to that effect. E.g., compare to:

ASU> http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.06/

How utterly terrible of a system. Isn't something like Debian's
http://packages.debian.org/sid/libgeography-nationalgrid-perl
a little better. Indeed, that links to
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geography-NationalGrid/
a genuine CPAN URL with no version hardwired that zeros in on the
package. ...

Wait, upon digging and digging I have found the "permalink"
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-Shortcut/

But as the permalinks are so poorly promoted that nobody ends up
linking to them.

[Peter Makholm]

jid...@jidanni.org writes:

> I want to make a link the Win32::Shortcut web page on CPAN to put into
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_shortcut#External_links , but

In the upper right corner of

http://search.cpan.org/src/JDB/libwin32-0.28/Shortcut/

Ther is a link called 'permalink'. This link will always brin you to
the latest version of the Win32::Shortcut documentation:

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Win32::Shortcut

//Makhonlm

[A. Sinan Unur]

jid...@jidanni.org wrote in news:87tzcwo...@jidanni.org:

>>>>>> "ASU" == A Sinan Unur <1u...@llenroc.ude.invalid> writes:
>
> ASU> http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.07/
>
> ASU> Those pages have links to all versions.

> ASU> When version 0.08 is released, the

> ASU> page will display a note to that effect. E.g.,

> ASU> compare to:

>
> ASU> http://search.cpan.org/~jdb/Win32-Shortcut-0.06/
>
> How utterly terrible of a system.

I don't think it is a terrible system.

Things can change between versions of a module. What you write about and
reference today may not exist in the next version (a concern esp. since
a version number like 0.07 does not indicate a mature module to me).

As for "scholarly" purposes, I believe it is common practice to
reference the document you actually read rather than some unknown future
version of it.

> Wait, upon digging and digging I have found the "permalink"
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Win32-Shortcut/
>
> But as the permalinks are so poorly promoted that nobody ends up
> linking to them.

I wasn't aware of the permalink feature. But I don't anticipate using it
precisely for the reason above.