Quoting Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Nov 17, 2003, at 15:49, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > Currently, if I look up a core module or a dual-lived module on > > search.cpan, it returns a reference to 5.6.2 : > > It will not shortly.
Thanks. > > 5.6.2 doesn't include any META.yml -- this should doesn't matter > > from the point of view of PAUSE, since I was told PAUSE ignore > > distributions with more than one META.yml (such as 5.8.2). > > However I don't know how this interacts with search. > > PAUSE and search are separate systems. Indeed. However metadata could be used to hint search, saying "don't index me as the latest dist". (see below) > search assumes that any upload of a dist should be considered latest. > This is correct 99.999% of the time. The perl dist is an exception to > this rule. I need to add some code to trap it, but have not done so > yet. Side note : I can imagine other exceptions : all dists that maintain two branches. An example would be GD -- GD 1.x and 2.x are interface to two different branches of libgd. Another will be mod_perl, when the mod_perl 2 branch will cease to have alpha version numbers a la "1.99_xx".
