On 2016-07-28 2:49 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Hi Darren,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m still working on resolving conflicts caused by
PAUSE now considering CPAN package names case insensitively. This has left us
with some situations where people are owners of namespaces previously
considered distinct, and now considered the same.
Your Locale-KeyedText distribution includes a number of example modules, and
until very recently PAUSE would index example modules and assign permissions.
As a result you have ownership of the MyLib namespace, which conflicts with
GAAS’s ownership of “mylib”, which is in his mylib distribution.
Given PAUSE no longer indexes example modules (because they’re not installed
when someone installs the distribution), I’m going to drop your permissions on
the example modules, to resolve this conflict. This shouldn’t cause any problem
(and if it does, I’ll sort that out), but please shout if you have any concerns
or questions.
PAUSE doesn’t let these kinds of conflicts occur any more — I’m cleaning up the
existing cases.
Cheers,
Neil
Hello Neil, and whom else it concerns.
Thank you for doing this!
It has long bothered me that the PAUSE indexer treated example or demo modules
as something to reserve namespace for, or they otherwise pollute lists of normal
modules, or get treated as more significant than they actually are.
I actually have 2 legacy distributions that need this kind of index cleanup, and
I will spell it out for you to help you deal with them.
First, regarding my legacy Locale-KeyedText distribution, all of the following
modules (all examples/* files) should NOT be indexed or reserved; please remove
all reservations on them:
examples/inverter1/MyApp/L/Eng.pm
examples/inverter1/MyApp/L/Fre.pm
examples/inverter1/MyApp/L/Homer.pm
examples/inverter1/MyLib.pm
examples/inverter1/MyLib/L/Eng.pm
examples/inverter1/MyLib/L/Fre.pm
examples/inverter2/MyApp/L/Homer.pm
examples/inverter2/MyLib.pm
Only the 2 lib/* modules should be indexed/reserved.
Second, regarding my legacy CGI-Portable distribution, all of the following
modules (all demos/* files) should NOT be indexed or reserved; please remove all
reservations on them:
demos/animals/DemoAardvark.pm
demos/animals/DemoCamel.pm
demos/animals/DemoOwl.pm
demos/animals/DemoPanda.pm
demos/animals/DemoTiger.pm
demos/frameset/DemoFrameSet.pm
demos/image/DemoDrawImage.pm
demos/smarthouse/DemoLM465.pm
demos/smarthouse/DemoX10.pm
Only the 11 lib/* modules should be indexed/reserved.
Note that, despite having Demo in their name, the 5 lib/Demo*.pm modules SHOULD
actually remain indexed/reserved, because they are actually as complete and
production-useable as any of the other lib/* modules, and they get installed.
While I COULD rename those 5 say to lib/CGI/Portable/Demo/*.pm to clean up the
global namespace, I'm disinclined at least from the perspective of that I
consider my web-related distributions to be legacy, they work but aren't being
updated anymore, so I prefer not to make a new release.
On the other hand, I could make a new release with that rename anyway for the
sole purpose that it would help clean the CPAN global namespace.
Do you want me to do that?
On a separate matter, and a heads-up, I consider all of my distributions with
"Rosetta" in their name to be obsolete and they will be replaced with ones
having "Muldis" in their name, which are actively under development; but until
the replacements arrive I have left the older ones up as placeholders of sorts
and they should remain indexed.
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
