On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > 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 guess I may be confused with what registering a module means ... Isn't "mod_perl" already registered as a module, and associated with the current mod_perl-1 distribution? To get the mod_perl of the mod_perl-2 distribution listed, one could simply upload a mod_perl-2.tar.gz (or even mod_perl-1.99.tar.gz, without the underscore in the version to designate experimental). However, CPAN.pm would think mod_perl-2 to be the most recent version, and install that when asked to 'install mod_perl'. For example, in mod_perl-1.99_xx, Apache::Build (which doesn't appear in CPAN.pm, and so isn't registered on PAUSE) does appear on search.cpan.org with the right description - this is apparently because lib/Apache/Build.pm has a =head1 NAME Apache::Build - Methods .... match. I bet (though not very much :) that if one added a similar pod section to lib/mod_perl.pm that search.cpan.org would pick that up for the next mod_perl-1.99_xx release. -- best regards, randy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
