On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:30:37PM +0200, Slaven Rezic wrote: > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The existence of such a service would, incidentally, free authors from > > the burden of maintaining their code on old versions of perl, as it > > would be trivial for a user to find and use the older version that > > doesn't use 'our' or the smart match wossname or whatever. > This is what the "Max version with a PASS" link in the CPAN testers > matrix is supposed to be: > http://bbbike.radzeit.de/~slaven/cpantestersmatrix.cgi?dist=DBI;maxver=1
Indeed. I'm talking about making that information available to CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS, so a user with perl 5.6.2 can configure his CPAN.pm to use the cp5.6.2an.example.com "mirror" and only ever get distributions that have at least one pass on 5.6.2. So, for example, when a module specifies that it needs DBI, his CPAN.pm will have an index that points at DBI-1.604 so it won't get 1.607 which won't work. Your very useful site makes it *possible* to find compatible versions of modules, but doesn't make it *trivial*. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary" -- H. L. Mencken
