>>>>> "David" == David Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Hi, David> just a heads-up about cleaning up CPAN. I know old versions are always David> available from BACKPAN (whatever that is, havent actually checked it out), David> but I came across a situation on FreeBSD. For those who dont know, FreeBSD David> has an excellent package management system called the ports tree, and it David> includes a large proportion of CPAN. However, the ports tend to lag a version David> or two behind CPAN, depending on the energy of the particular port David> maintainer. So for instance Tree::Simple is at 0.14 on CPAN, and previous David> versions have been deleted. In the ports tree, the p5-Tree-Simple package is David> still looking for version 0.12, which no longer exists, so it fails. David> In my opinion, this is a deficiency of the ports system in not automatically David> picking the most up to date version from CPAN, but thats the way it is. These ports are broken then. They should list both the CPAN and the BACKPAN as possible source hosts. That's the fix. Don't make module authors do something different. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
