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Re^3: Getting man-page info on metacpan and search.cpan.orgby Anonymous Monk |
on May 31, 2016 at 02:57 UTC ( [id://1164540]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
(BTW, the first link in that section, to lwp-request, is broken). I'm guessing, but probably because it is created at when you run Makefile.PL , so if you install LWP, the link will work, just not on CPAN update: well I checked, its a typo in the NAME section of https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/libwww-perl/bin/lwp-request, must use dash, convention is NAME - description so it should be
This is also a bug in PAUSE/CPAN indexer, most folks figure out the right formatting, but it should warn the rest when =head1 NAME doesn't match NAME - description because its used for resolving links It took me a while to understand you because of the HTML escaping in the link. Aww :) I usually double check ... metamod:// should be smarter and save me when I typo :) https://metacpan.org/pod/LWP#MORE-DOCUMENTATION
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