On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0700, Stas Bekman wrote: > Leon has kindly forwarded to me Autrijus' notes from the last CPAN meeting > which unfortunately I couldn't attend: > http://cplan.kwiki.org/?MinutesAccordingToAutrijus > and the information about this new list. > > I'm most interested in the outcome of the two topics: 'Group Authors' and > 'Modules with several versions on CPAN'. > > 1. Group Authors > > * PAUSE has existing mechanism to use mailing lists as author keys > * The goal is for it to stay consistent across maintainers > * Groups should get their own directories > * Maybe groups/id/P5P in addition to authors/id/F/FO/FOOBAR?
I don't think there's any need for a different directory structure. Groups share the same namespace as authors so can live with them. > Sounds very promising. What are the plans for implementation this. Mainly in Andreas' hands I guess. > I'm willing to help test things. We could use Apache-Test for this purpose > which is maintained by Doug MacEachearn, me and Geoffrey Young at the > moment, but more maintainers may join later. > > 2. 'Modules with several versions on CPAN'. > > I couldn't find this issue resolved/discussed in the notes. > > What's going to happen when mod_perl 2.0 is released on CPAN? All users > will then get mod_perl 2.0 fetched even if they want mod_perl 1.0. mod_perl > 2.0 doesn't replace mod_perl 1.0, so using > the-latest-version-is-the-one-you-want approach doesn't work here. Have you > discussed this issue? All I recall was that the dependency metadata needs to be able to handle more complex expressions than at present in order to prevent incompatible future versions of future modules And then authors would still have to actually add eg "mod_perl < 2" to the dependency list of modules that don't support mod_perl 2. Personally I'd suggest renaming "mod_perl" version 2 to "mod_perl2" and so completely duck the issue for now. I doubt it could get fixed in time for you. Tim.
