On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com> wrote: > AFAICT there is no good index for backpan though. I have to audit diffs > to older module versions quite often, so I have my own tools, and found > that even the links are not comprehensive; I have to crawl both > backpan/modules/by-module and backpan/modules/by-authors/id to make > sure I find *all* the different versions.
I believe that brian foy created a pretty comprehensive one -- I think he may have actually investigated how module files changed from tarball to tarball. (E.g. Module $VERSION was the same in two tarballs, but the file MD5's are different). The hard problem is that PAUSE doesn't have any maintainer/co-maintainer history -- so given a historical DAGOLDEN/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz and RJBS/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz, there's no way to tell that one or the other was the official indexed version. You can look at who has maintainer rights *today* and assume from that who was authorized when the tarball was uploaded. I don't know (yet) how many collisions like that there are. I suspect it's a relatively small number that can be flagged and resolved with a bit of research and email. -- David
