July 2013 Archives

Fiddling with the metacpan.org URLs

One of the pain points of MetaCPAN is that URLs don't always point where you would expect them to. For example, should a script be found under metacpan.org/module/*? Does that make sense? What happens when someone releases a module with the name of the script? Please note that we're talking about the URLs on the search front end, not the API.

We've struggled for a long while with questions like this. How do we structure URLs on metacpan.org which have a sensible hierarchy? URLs (lik…

About Olaf Alders

user-pic I hack on MetaCPAN, CPAN modules and other fun stuff.