On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Stas Bekman wrote: > Doug, if you look at: > http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=mod_perl+1.99_05 > or > http://search.cpan.org/author/DOUGM/ > > the entry for mod_perl is: > mod_perl-1.99_05 2.0 Win32 Installation Instructions > > it picks it up from some pod file. If it was a registered module, the > right description would be used. Please go to PAUSE and submit the > registration request from there. > > Thanks.
I'm not intimately familiar with the internals, but this might be an issue with search.cpan.org - I know that it extracts meta information from uploaded distributions that isn't always in the CPAN/PAUSE index files. Plus, if one registered mod_perl-1.99_05 (which is designated experimental now) as mod_perl, then CPAN.pm will install that version, which is probably not wanted yet. What may be happening is that search.cpan.org, if it can't find a description of the module/distribution, searches through the pod documentation for a match =head1 NAME $MODNAME (.*) and uses $1 as the description. One file that matches this is docs/os/win32/install.pod. One could consider this a buglet - the more usual match for a description (eg, from ExtUtils::MakeMaker in extracting ABSTRACT_FROM) is =head1 NAME $MODNAME\s-\s(.*) -- best regards, randy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
