On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:38:21AM -0500, James E Keenan wrote: > > However, when I go to this page, > > http://testers.cpan.org/author/JKEENAN.html > > ... which purports to report on the latest version of all my CPAN > distributions, I see that the version of ExtUtils-ModuleMaker reported > on is 0.204 -- and that this version is reported as failing 80% of the > time. Far from being the latest version, 0.204 was the last version > posted to CPAN before I took over maintenance from its creator, Geoff Avery. > > Can anyone explain why testers.cpan.org is saying that such an old > version of a CPAN distribution is the latest?
'testers.cpan.org' is not a domain I look after, and currently runs the last version of CPAN-WWW-Testers that Leon released back last year. Since then I created the www.cpantesters.org domain and have updated the code base to resolve the issues some had with the site. The issue you see is due to a bug in Parse::BACKPAN::Packages, which doesn't account for multiple authors for a single distribution. As such when the report pages are created, the take the first author they find and often reference the wrong or old versions of a distribution. At the moment some have issues with the javascript version of the new site, and until the flat html version is available, I'm reluctant to ask for the old domain to be redirected. Until then the older site will occasionally have some distributions that are not up to date. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
