David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:02:16AM +0100, Barbie wrote: [...] > > > Part of the purpose for CPAN Testers is to try and indicate whether a > > particular distribution can pass with a given platform/perl, but more > > specifically what versions pass with that given platform/perl. In some > > cases the latest version fails, but an earlier version passes. > > Something on p5p today gave me a *really* interesting idea - use > cpan-testers results to create a CPAN index that contains the latest > version of every distribution that works on a given version of perl. > Run a CPAN "mirror" that serves up those index files but proxies all > other requests through to a real CPAN mirror. That way, when someone > using, say, perl 5.6.2 tries to install Foo::Bar which depends on DBI, > he'll get a version of DBI that works on his perl, rather than the CPAN > client downloading the latest DBI which then fails its tests. > > The existence of such a service would, incidentally, free authors from > the burden of maintaining their code on old versions of perl, as it > would be trivial for a user to find and use the older version that > doesn't use 'our' or the smart match wossname or whatever.
This is what the "Max version with a PASS" link in the CPAN testers matrix is supposed to be: http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=DBI;maxver=1 -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tktimex - time recording tool http://sourceforge.net/projects/ptktools/
