Hi Daniel, >> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through tidying up permissions >> conflicts that have been caused by the fact that PAUSE now consider package >> names case insensitively (due to case-insensitive filesystems, as on Windows >> and MacOS X). PAUSE doesn’t let these situations occur now, but we have some >> historical cases. I’m sorting these out so that we don’t need code in the >> toolchain for dealing with permissions conflicts. >> >> You have first-come permission on SOAP::Transport::ACTIVEWORKS::Client, >> which you last released in >> >> SOAP-Lite-ActiveWorks-0.10.tar.gz (released 26th Oct 2000) >> >> You also have first-come permission on SOAP::Transport::ActiveWorks::Client, >> which you last released in >> >> D/DY/DYACOB/SOAP-ActiveWorks-0.12.tar.gz (released 27th Oct 2000) >> >> These package names are different only in case. To resolve the potential >> conflict, I propose dropping your permissions on the older >> SOAP::Transport::ACTIVEWORKS::Client, and deleting the 0.10 and 0.11 >> releases from your CPAN author directory. > > How would you like to resolve this conflict? > > As I said above, it looks to me as it SOAP-ActiveWorks was superseded by > SOAP-Lite-ActiveWorks, so the former distribution could be deleted from CPAN, > and the permissions on that dropped. > > I can do those steps on your behalf, with your permission. Or do you want to > keep both dists on CPAN? If the latter, then one of the modules should be > resolved, as at the moment people on case-insensitive filesystems can’t have > both distributions installed at the same time, as one of > SOAP::Transport::ACTIVEWORKS::Client and SOAP::Transport::ActiveWorks::Client > will over-write the other.
Since you haven’t replied to any of my emails, and neither distribution has had a release since 2001, I will shortly resolve this by dropping your first-come permission on SOAP::Transport::ActiveWorks::Client; that will resolve the conflict. Both releases will still be on CPAN, but SOAP::Transport::ActiveWorks::Client won’t be indexed against SOAP-ActiveWorks. Please let me know if you’d rather resolve this in a different way. Even if I’ve dropped the permission on SOAP::Transport::ActiveWorks::Client, we can always reverse that, if you want to solve it a different way. Cheers, Neil
