Anyone feel like taking care of this so older versions of CPAN.pm
Do The Right Thing?
Thanks,
Barrie
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Subject: Re: PASS File-Spec-0.8 ppc-linux 2.2.14
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 10:15:05 -0500
From: Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Barrie Slaymaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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At 9:41 AM -0500 3/24/00, Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
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>>
>> There's an indexing problem at CPAN, of course:
>
>Thanks for testing it. I suspect there will always be a bit of an
>indexing problem, since the version numbers are the same as those in
>perl, and it gets uploaded first. Just a guess, mind you.
Yes. This problem should be fixed, though, for all core modules that
are also useful for earlier versions of Perl. (I know you can't fix
this yourself, of course, except by bumping the version number.)
The problem described on p5p earlier this week persists, and will
until CPAN thinks that File::Spec comes from your tarball rather than
from the Perl 5.6 distribution:
cpan> test File::Spec
Going to read /usr/local/src/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read /usr/local/src/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Scanning cache /usr/local/src/.cpan/build for sizes
Going to read /usr/local/src/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Running make for GSAR/perl-5.6.0.tar.gz
The most recent version "0.8" of the module "File::Spec"
comes with the current version of perl (5.6.0).
I'll build that only if you ask for something like
force install File::Spec
or
install GSAR/perl-5.6.0.tar.gz
>
>- Barrie
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