Hi Nathan, Would you be happy for me to do a 0.02 release of your Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::WebPivot module, so resolve the issue previously outlined?
Cheers, Neil On 5 Aug 2020, 15:57 +0100, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com>, wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins. PAUSE is the system used to upload Perl > distributions to CPAN. > > In 2005 you uploaded the first version of your > Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::WebPivot module, with version 0.01. > > Unfortunately the naming of the upload file didn’t follow conventions, so > various CPAN tools have problems with it. For example your module doesn’t > appear in the MetaCPAN search engine, when people look at your page: > https://metacpan.org/author/NATHANL > > And one part of the CPAN toolchain gets confused by the name of your > distribution, which can also cause problems. > > There are at least two ways to fix this: > > 1. You could do a simple upload, that fixes the problem. See below. > 2. We could delete the file from CPAN, so it can’t cause confusion. > > To fix the problem, if you still have the source lying around, you can do the > following: > > edit WebPivot.pm and change the version to 0.02 > perl Makefile.PL > make dist > upload Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-WebPivot-0.02.tar.gz to PAUSE > > If you’re not doing Perl any more, and/or aren’t interested in keeping this > on CPAN, I can schedule its deletion for you. You’d get an email from PAUSE > confirming this. > > Cheers, > Neil >
