On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:24:59PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
> A) On the PAUSE side, it should publish data for all currently existing,
> distinct module versions under 02packages.details.txt.gz. So, where it
> currently has:
>
> mod_perl 1.29 G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
>
> You'd like it to say:
>
> ...
> mod_perl 1.27 G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.27.tar.gz
> mod_perl 1.28 G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.28.tar.gz
> mod_perl 1.29 G/GO/GOZER/mod_perl-1.29.tar.gz
> mod_perl 2.00 S/ST/STAS/mod_perl-2.00.tar.gz
> ...
That will be a massive increase in data volume.
I think the index only needs to track "The highest of each major
version for each author".
So you'd generate a new index entry only if the major version has
changed or if the author of the new release is different to the
author of the previous minor version of the same major version.
Here's an example sequence of uploads to demonstrate:
JOE 1.1 new entry
JOE 1.2 replaces 1.1 entry
JOE 1.3 replaces 1.2 entry
JIM 2.0 new entry
JIM 2.1 replaces 2.0 entry
JOE 1.4 replaces 1.3 entry
JIM 1.5 new entry
and you'd end up with these entries
JOE 1.4
JIM 1.5
JIM 2.1
Tim.
