On Sunday 03 August 2003 17:45, Andy Lester wrote:
> There's a distro on CPAN now called lcwa that I would love to see
> disappear. It's from 1997 and it's one of those distros that
> included all its necessary parts rather than rely on depencies.
> Unfortunately, those parts are 6 years out of date, but come up in
> searches on the modules.
>
> Do a search on search.cpan.org for "HTTP::Response", a pretty common
> module. The first hit that comes up is the one from lcwa, and if
> you're not paying attention to the distro name (or you're a relative
> newbie who doesn't realize he needs to), you're going to be looking
> at 6-year-old docs for the module.
Try Test::More, it's true home is Test::Simple but that's 5th on the list.
Can I suggest a change to the sorting algorithm for search.cpan.org when
searching for a module or for docs
@sorted_distros = sort {
$a->oldest_version->release_date <=>
$b->oldest_version->release_date
} all_distros_containing("Module::Name");
Because chances are that if Distro::A includes a piece of Distro::B then
Distro::B probably predates Distro::A. Of course that's not necessarily true,
it's quite possible but that should be comparitively rare.
I think it doesn't fully solve the problem for Test::More but it might for
some others
F
