Randy Kobes wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
>
>
>>Doug, if you look at:
>>http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=mod_perl+1.99_05
>>or
>>http://search.cpan.org/author/DOUGM/
>>
>>the entry for mod_perl is:
>>mod_perl-1.99_05 2.0 Win32 Installation Instructions
>>
>>it picks it up from some pod file. If it was a registered module, the
>>right description would be used. Please go to PAUSE and submit the
>>registration request from there.
>>
>>Thanks.
>
>
> I'm not intimately familiar with the internals, but this might be
> an issue with search.cpan.org - I know that it extracts meta
> information from uploaded distributions that isn't always in the
> CPAN/PAUSE index files. Plus, if one registered mod_perl-1.99_05
> (which is designated experimental now) as mod_perl, then CPAN.pm
> will install that version, which is probably not wanted yet.
I don't think CPAN.pm has anything to do with registered modules. One
needs to register them to get listed in the module list and various
announcements like CPAN update weekly and use.perl.org daily feeds. I've
noticed the problem here:
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not very nice...
> What may be happening is that search.cpan.org, if it can't find a
> description of the module/distribution, searches through the pod
> documentation for a match
>
> =head1 NAME
>
> $MODNAME (.*)
>
> and uses $1 as the description. One file that matches
> this is docs/os/win32/install.pod. One could consider this
> a buglet - the more usual match for a description (eg,
> from ExtUtils::MakeMaker in extracting ABSTRACT_FROM) is
>
> =head1 NAME
>
> $MODNAME\s-\s(.*)
yes, but registering the module solves this guessing problem.
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