David Cantrell raises this edge case in CPAN::Reporter: > The distribution name 'Sendmail_M4.0.27.tar.gz' does not appear to be > formatted according to CPAN tester guidelines. Perhaps it is not a > normal CPAN distribution.
How do you think we should handle this case? Right now CPAN::Reporter doesn't send reports unless the distribution tarball matches: qr/(.+)([\-\_])(v?\d.*)(\.(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2)|tgz|zip))$/; This was added at Barbie's suggested based on the use of this regex in YACSmoke. We could make the separator optional: qr/(.+)([\-\_]?)(v?\d.*)(\.(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2)|tgz|zip))$/; Alternatively, we could just confirm that the distribution appears to be a tarball and hope that's a valid distribution and that the CPAN Testers architecture can parse out a dist-name and version. Any ideas? David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 3, 2007 7:45 PM Subject: CPAN::Reporter bug^Wweird edge case To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't suppose this is really a bug, but FYI ... It looks like a fairly normal (if very poor quality) distribution to me. http://search.cpan.org/~cml/Sendmail_M4.0.27/ -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age and, if their main or only aptitude is for marketing, drowned.
