>>>>> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:44:12 -0400, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Also consider the effect of a module that's in the core and not
>> maintained on CPAN anymore.
> This is a problem with the core modules I'm trying to correct.
> Ideally, with a few obvious exceptions, they should all be available
> on CPAN in some backwards compatible form or another.
This alone solves all problems, no change to the indexer needed.
>> After a while, somebody will complain that CPAN is horribly
>> outdated. Then either the author will delete the outdated version
>> (complicating the indexer's logic)
> If the author does not intend to release new versions of the module to
> CPAN, deleting the old versions (or moving them to backpan) is the
> next best thing to do.
> The indexing logic isn't terribly complicated by this. All you have
> to add is a little clause saying "If there's no other version of the
> module available, list the core version".
> If you could tell me where to get the indexer code, I'll have a look
> at it and try a patch.
It's doable if we maintain another table for all modules in the latest
official perl or for all modules in all distributions. We currently
don't have that.
BTW, you asked in a different posting about the schema: A current
database dump is always in ~ftp/pub/PAUSE/PAUSE-data/moddump.current.
It's written every 6 hours and available in bzipped form too.
--
andreas
