-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all!
It seems that I made a slight blunder - CPAN does have an updated version of Compress::Bzip2 but there are a few problems involved. It seems that Compress-Bzip2 WAS updated in july this year. The earilier problems found was due to the fact that I couldn't find the new module since it was only in some authors directory. So the situation is: - - cpan.org/module lists Compress::Bzip2-1.00 which does not compile no mention of Compress::Bzip2-1.01. - - search.cpan.org lists Compress::Bzip2-1.01 which does compile in some authors directory. no mention of Compress::Bzip2-1.00 It seems like a mess to me (especially when it's the same module name). That was the original reason for me writing the code. This is a classic case of bad management leading to resource wasting. - -I wasted time writing code which was already on CPAN - -If I could download the code I would have spent the time writing a different module (thus making CPAN even better.). - -CPAN (as it is organized today) expects you to search for a module in two places (thus wasting time for everyone looking for things in CPAN). - -searching for the module not in the central module list requires that you know the name of the module. - -if someone (like I did 2 weeks ago) searches for Bzip2 module he could (like me) go to the modules list and download 1.00 which WILL NOT compile. This is true even today. This is a bad state to be in. - -many other modules probably have the same problems. I can understand the reasoning not to let every author step on other authors packages - but somehow the situation that occured with Compress::Bzip2 should not be allowed to occur again. Anyone care to comment ? Mark. - -- Name: Mark Veltzer Title: Research and Development Company: Meta Ltd. Address: Habikaa 17/3, Kiriat Sharet City: Holon Zip code: 58495 County: Gush-Dan Country: Israel Home Phone: +972-3-5508163 Business Phone: +972-3-5508163 Extension: none Fax: +972-3-5508163 Mobile: +972-53-514132 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Icq: 25787273 Aol: mark2776 Yahoo: mark2776 Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/mark2776 CPAN id: VELTZER (http://cpan.org) SourceForge id: veltzer (http://www.sourceforge.net) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE73jxP2mxGJGQAmakRAhVdAJ4gJpW/fSJDHXExdXpogKKt5r4XCQCbBy+p wcFBnWr4id8fa04UILoCkoM= =7NVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
