On 20 May 2015 at 00:55, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 05/19/2015 10:51 AM, David Golden wrote: > >> I have tuits today to ship my various TRIAL dists and keep an eye on them. >> Ideally, I wouldn't do them all in close succession, but my tuit supply is >> lumpy. >> >> > I must have missed some discussion thread. What is a "TRIAL" dist? > > I had a similar question, and ended up at http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#conventions They are described under the 'Developer Releases' heading, which seems to state they are of the same category as 'underscore' distributions.
To quote: "PAUSE will leave the underscore distributions alone: no readme will be extracted, no index will be updated, no symlinks will be created."