On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:24:18PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > Something on p5p today gave me a *really* interesting idea - use > cpan-testers results to create a CPAN index that contains the latest > version of every distribution that works on a given version of perl.
See http://pass.cpantesters.org, thanks to Gabor :) > Run a CPAN "mirror" that serves up those index files but proxies all > other requests through to a real CPAN mirror. That way, when someone > using, say, perl 5.6.2 tries to install Foo::Bar which depends on DBI, > he'll get a version of DBI that works on his perl, rather than the CPAN > client downloading the latest DBI which then fails its tests. I think this has a lot of merit. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
