On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 12:30, Leon Brocard wrote: > http://dellah.org/testers/MIME-Lite-HTML gets the version sorting > wrong but "right". How do you sort, Iain? > > http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=dist&dist=MIME-Lite-HTML > keeps on timing out, so I don't know what it does. Graham?
I just added a new index to the database. It should be much quicker now. > Now maybe I should ignore the version numbers and instead sort using > the dates that the module was uploaded to CPAN, but that's external > information, bah. That is what search does because guessing at peoples versioning was to unpredictable. However using upload dates is also problematic for some distributions (eg mod_perl and perl) Graham.
