On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:43:45AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> > BTW, I verified that "TRIAL1" (with the added "1") will work against the
> > current PAUSE code. All that matters is that the filename contain the
> > string
> > "TRIAL" (i.e. Lucy-0.3.0-ATRIAL-FIBRILLATION.tar.gz would work, too):
>
> Is that part of the spec., or are you taking advantage of buggy behaviour?
It's part of the documentation -- "spec" might be a strong word. ;)
http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#conventions
If you want to do that simply choose a filename that matches /\d\.\d+_\d/
or contains TRIAL.
I think we're OK, because these tarballs will be short-lived. In a worst-case
scenario, the PAUSE behavior changes without us knowing and a TRIAL tarball
accidentally becomes official as far as CPAN goes. We could repair that with
either an X.Y.Z.1 CPAN-only release or a new canonical ASF bugfix release.
Marvin Humphrey
