At 13:54 -0800 2/14/02, Gisle Aas wrote:
>Seach.cpan.org also tells you which version of the module exists in
>the distributions.  You should normally always take the latest.  In
>this case it says that:
>
>  HTML::FormatText v1.18 is found in HTML-Format-1.23
>  HTML::FormatText v1.15 is found in libwww-perl-5.22
>
>You want the one with the highest version number so you go with
>HTML-Format-1.23.

I figured that out.  The real problem was this:

>
> Also when you click on the
>"libwww-perl-5.22" link you end up on a page for the latest version of
>"libwww-perl", currently 5.64.  This is kind of wrong.  I think it
>should have linked to:
>
>  http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libwww-perl-5.22

This is what really confused  me.  There _was_ a version in libwww 5.22, and
libwww 5.64 was more recent than  HTML-Format-1.23 but didn't appear to have
the modules; I couldn't get to libwww 5.22 through the link I was given, so
the pointers all seems to be out of kilter. I did download HTML-Format-1.23
but couldn't figure out why the page seemed to be telling me I ought to be
able to find what I wanted as part of LibWWW.

It's too bad these things aren't all in the libwww bundle.  I must have spent
about half an hour discovering new dependencies I didn't know existed :(


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