Adriano Ferreira wrote:

> On 8/4/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Maybe it's just me not understanding how things work (no big surprise
> there, eh?), but I've also noticed that
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/AI-Prolog/ points to your release but searching
> for AI::Prolog only shows mine
> (http://search.cpan.org/search?query=AI%3A%3AProlog&mode=all).
>
> I don't know exactly why it happens, but it always happens with
> development versions (the ones that got underscores in version numbers
> like the AI-Prolog-0.735_01 Joshua used). There is someplace where it
> is told that development versions are not indexed. search.cpan finds
> it and bundles together with other AI-Prolog distributions, but the
> search does not work smoothly.

This is because PAUSE and Search CPAN do not work the same way.
PAUSE only indexes modules that follow some precise rules, one of them
being that the version number mustn't indicate a development version.
Search CPAN however indexes nearly every uploaded distribution.


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