On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:15:10PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote:
This is Apache::Scoreboard for httpd-2.0 (mod_perl 2.0).
You will still need Apache-Scoreboard-0.10 for mod_perl 1.0 and its apps. CPAN will now always try to install Apache-Scoreboard-2.xx, even when you want it to install Apache-Scoreboard-0.10. Go and tell CPAN maintainers that you don't like it and ask them to work on a solution that will allow several generations of modules with the same name coexist happily on CPAN. Until masses will start complaining I don't see this being resolved.
Mostly because, IMHO, that is not the proper solution to the problem.
If you have a dependent subsidiary product which is specific to the (EG) major revision of some other project, then the first release of the subsid for the new version should be *1.0*, the *product name* should be modified to indicate which version of it's parent it applies to.
Apache 1 and Apache 2 really *are* two separate parents; encoding your dependency in *your own* version number is a recipe for pain.
Nuh, unfortunately that's not a panacea. None of the automatic tools is able to deduct which version to bring based on the version. And that's where the problem is.
On the manual installation front, yes, you could try to make it easier, by keeping the same major version number. But what if by the time you wanted to release a new version for generation X, that X has already been taken? In any case, it's the automatic dependency resolving tools which we are having the problem with, not the manual ones.
Also I've just released Apache::VMonitor 2.0, which works with both mod_perl generations. So should it be called 1.0? 2.0? It just doesn't work.
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