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Posted to dev@perl.apache.org by Randy Kobes <ra...@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca> on 2003/12/12 07:51:05 UTC
CPAN indexing on Apache-Test
This may be an unsolveable problem, but when using CPAN.pm
to explore Apache-Test, some strange things arise:
[randy@theoryx5 randy]$ cpan
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan> m Apache::Test
Module id = Apache::Test
DESCRIPTION Framework for testing Apache modules
CPAN_USERID STAS (Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>)
CPAN_VERSION 1.06
CPAN_FILE G/GE/GEOFF/Apache-Test-1.06.tar.gz
DSLI_STATUS Smph (standard,mailing-list,perl,hybrid)
MANPAGE Apache::Test - Test.pm wrapper with helpers for testing Apache
INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache/Test.pm
INST_VERSION 1.06
cpan> m Apache::TestRun
Module id = Apache::TestRun
CPAN_USERID STAS (Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE G/GE/GEOFF/Apache-Test-1.06.tar.gz
MANPAGE Apache::TestRun - Run the test suite
INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache/TestRun.pm
INST_VERSION undef
cpan> m Apache::TestRunPerl
Module id = Apache::TestRunPerl
CPAN_USERID STAS (Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE G/GE/GEOFF/Apache-Test-1.05.tar.gz
MANPAGE
INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache/TestRunPerl.pm
INST_VERSION undef
cpan> m Apache::TestSmoke
Module id = Apache::TestSmoke
CPAN_USERID STAS (Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE G/GE/GEOFF/Apache-Test-1.05.tar.gz
MANPAGE Apache::TestSmoke - Special Tests Sequence Failure Finder
INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache/TestSmoke.pm
INST_VERSION undef
The difference between the CPAN_USERID and CPAN_FILE user is
perhaps at best confusing, but what's also strange (and
perhaps a problem for users) is that different CPAN_FILE
versions are reported. So, if a user asks to install
Apache::TestRunPerl, version 1.05 will be fetched, while
asking for Apache::TestRun will fetch 1.06.
Might this have to do with the versions of these modules
being undefined?
--
best regards,
randy
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Re: CPAN indexing on Apache-Test
Posted by Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>.
Randy Kobes wrote:
> This may be an unsolveable problem, but when using CPAN.pm
> to explore Apache-Test, some strange things arise:
>
> [randy@theoryx5 randy]$ cpan
>
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.76)
> ReadLine support enabled
>
> cpan> m Apache::Test
> Module id = Apache::Test
> DESCRIPTION Framework for testing Apache modules
> CPAN_USERID STAS (Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>)
> CPAN_VERSION 1.06
> CPAN_FILE G/GE/GEOFF/Apache-Test-1.06.tar.gz
> DSLI_STATUS Smph (standard,mailing-list,perl,hybrid)
> MANPAGE Apache::Test - Test.pm wrapper with helpers for testing Apache
> INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache/Test.pm
> INST_VERSION 1.06
You really want to do just that. The rest are helper modules and users
shouldn't be really looking for others. Same goes for dependencies - you
always want to PREREQ_PM on Apache::Test and not any other module.
> The difference between the CPAN_USERID and CPAN_FILE user is
> perhaps at best confusing, but what's also strange (and
> perhaps a problem for users) is that different CPAN_FILE
> versions are reported. So, if a user asks to install
> Apache::TestRunPerl, version 1.05 will be fetched, while
> asking for Apache::TestRun will fetch 1.06.
>
> Might this have to do with the versions of these modules
> being undefined?
Yup, that's the missing version issue I think.
Can you please email cpan-discuss@perl.org and may be CC Andreas and Autrijus,
reminding that we really need to have group accounts. At the moment it's
Apache::Test and mod_perl, but there will be many modules released at
different times by different people. I've asked many times, but I don't think
anything was done about this. May be if more people start nagging, something
will happen at the end.
Once this is fixed on PAUSE, CPAN_USERID and CPAN_FILE will agree and point to
something like MODPERL_MODULES.
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