Graham Barr sent the following bits through the ether: > > 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)
It does? The order of the MIME-Lite-HTML page and the backpan dates don't agree: http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=dist&dist=MIME-Lite-HTML kanga% ls -tr BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-*.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-0.1.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-0.3.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-0.4.tar.gz [...] BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-1.16.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-1.17.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-1.18.tar.gz Thanks for answering all these questions, Leon -- Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/ scribot.................................http://www.scribot.com/ ... Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine
