Tim Bunce wrote: [...]
I wish it was something that was a bother only to me personally. I can go to CPAN and manually get what I want. The problem is that it's a big bother with a huge community of mod_perl users. And all complaints end up on the mod_perl developer's table. And the ball hasn't even started to roll yet. It will soon. It's not going to be pretty.
I agree that this is something that needs to be addressed urgently.
Thanks Tim! ;)
Sadly I have zero time to help, beyond the odd email here. I'd suggest that you look into implementing the PREREQ_PM change you've outlined.
It's the support from the PAUSE that is needed first. Clients (CPAN(PLUS)?/search.cpan.org) come second. User API (MakeMaker/Module::Builder) third. The index needs to be changed to supply all available versions instead of just the latest ones. Which obviously blows up the size of the index. Therefore in the future it could be a good idea to have a META.yml flag which will specify the generation of the product. So going back to my example of having 1.27, 1.28, 1.29, 2.0 and 2.01. versions PAUSE could put only 1.29 and 2.01 into the index if 1.27, 1.28, 1.29 were to specify the same generation tag, and 2.0 and 2.01 a different one. It's not always simple to deduct the generation of the product by its major number. GD.pm is a good example where several generations exist under the same major number.
If it turns out to ne non-trivial ask for more help. There were quite a few people willing to contribute in various ways at the meeting.
I wish I was there.
This is a significant issue for the community and so I'd hope someone would offer to help. The relative silence here is troubling. Perhaps it's the wrong list and/or we're the only people subscribed :(
Hmm, I've CC'ed Andreas and Autrijus, the two folks who can make the biggest impact on resolving this issue in case they aren't on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andreas, Autrijus, what do you think about this issue?
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