[I sent this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] first but that seems to have 
become less of a discussion list and more of an 
automated-customer-service-center type of operation, so I'm sending it here 
in hopes of reaching a human with experience on CPAN bundles]

I maintain a suite of ClearCase-related modules located (naturally) in the 
ClearCase::* namespace. There are now 5 or 6 of these so I decided recently 
that a bundle might be convenient. I followed exactly the instructions at 
http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_make_bundle to create 
Bundle::ClearCase and uploaded it but still, weeks later, it doesn't work. 
For instance:

        % perl -MCPAN -e "install Bundle::ClearCase"

results in

        Warning: Cannot install Bundle::ClearCase, don't know what it is.

My best guess is that bundles must be registered via [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be 
useable. Is that the case? Does anyone know another reason it should fail 
to work? The bundle is definitely present on CPAN, just not useable qua bundle.

A little more background: while I've gone through official 
namespace-negotiation procedures for my general-purpose modules, I've not 
bothered to do so with the ClearCase ones. Since ClearCase::* already 
exists and is the obvious parent namespace, and since most people reading 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] aren't likely to either know or care enough about 
ClearCase minutiae to be involved in choosing the lower-level name, I've 
skipped that step though in some cases I've debated the name within the 
ClearCase community. Anyway, is it possible that a bundle doesn't work 
unless all its _members_ are officially registered? Seems unlikely.

Thanks,
David Boyce

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