On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:04:03PM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> As always with perl, "it depends". They are laid out just as a normal
> CPAN repository, so if you have one in your urllist, something
> specified as author/distribution.tar.gz might well resolve.
Not just "might well resolve". It *will* work. If you use one of my
cpXXXan mirrors, you're hitting a BackPAN mirror with a custom index.
> *However*,
> they don't necessarily have up-to-date index files. Compare
> timestamps on 02packages.details.txt
Indeed. I don't imagine that that would be hard for Andreas to keep in
sync!
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