On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:32:27AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 02:32:19 -0400, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > The CPAN index is listing
> > base undef G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz
>
> > for base.pm. There's two problems with that.
>
> > 1) base.pm in 5.6.1 is version 1.01, not undef.
>
> The reason for that was the "our" declaration of $VERSION. At the time
> 5.6.1 was uploaded, PAUSE was running under 5.005_something and could
> not understand the "our".
Ahh, ok, cool.
> > 2) M/MS/SCCHWERN/Class-Fields-0.14.tar.gz contains base.pm version 1.97
>
> You need to be owner of base.pm in order to convince the indexer to
> accept it. Shall I make you the owner?
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm... it's actually a fork against the core base.pm so
I'm not quite the owner. However, it's a lot more useful to get
Class-Fields-0.14.tar.gz than perl-5.6.1.tar.gz when you ask for
base.pm. Your pick.
> > As a result, modules with dependencies on base > 0 are trying to
> > download perl. Users of 5.005_03 and down can't install modules
> > properly.
>
> > Andreas, if you don't have the time, could you please publish the CPAN
> > indexing code somewhere so I can fix this?
>
> I just gave you an account on PAUSE so that you can look around. Pause
> code is in ~k/PAUSE. I'm not in favor of publishing the code, but I'm
> very open to your suggestions. But please, do not make too many
> suggestions at once, I fear I cannot digest them all.
K. I think I have an interesting way around this problem which I'll
post up about shortly.
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