On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 12:19:52PM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 18.12 +0200 2000.05.17, Armin Obersteiner wrote:
> >hi!
> >
> >i have a pause account (user: fonkie) an uploaded the file.
> >
> >http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=CDDB-0.9
> >
> >shows my module, but another author ???!!!
> >why?
> >
> >did i do anything wrong? (i'm a first-timer)
>
> Yes. You uploaded a module that already existed. I do not know why CDDB
> is listed under Michael Koehne, though. Rocco Caputo is the author of CDDB:
>
> http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/R/RC/RCAPUTO/
>
>
> >how to find a good place in the namespace tree?
>
> Well, look on CPAN or at search.cpan.org to see if it already exists.
>
> Although this seems like it may be a PAUSE bug; I thought that no one could
> upload "DistName-\d+.\d+.tar.gz" if DistName already belonged to another
> author.
I am not sure where the bug is, maybe PAUSE, maybe search.cpan.org, maybe both,
but
find . -name CDDB\*gz -ls
10493 May 14 10:50 ./F/FO/FONKIE/CDDB-0.9.tar.gz
10493 May 15 11:44 ./K/KR/KRAEHE/CDDB-0.9.tar.gz
11706 Nov 7 1998 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-0.06-beta.tar.gz
12471 Jan 10 1999 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-0.07.tar.gz
12916 Jul 16 1999 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.00.tar.gz
13227 Jul 16 1999 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.01.tar.gz
13422 Aug 13 1999 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.02.tar.gz
13829 Apr 29 22:00 ./R/RC/RCAPUTO/CDDB-1.03.tar.gz
0.9 does not exist in R/RC/RCAPUTO, but newer versions do.
But IIRC search.cpan.org uses that latest uploaded as you cannot always
determine a version number from the dist name. Although it is getting
better.
Graham.
