Re: CPAN Shell, Bundles and downloading specific versions

in reply to CPAN Shell, Bundles and downloading specific versions

CPANPLUS creates bundles that look like

=head1 CONTENTS

Acme::DeepThoughts 0.01

Acme::MJD 0.02

Algorithm::Diff 1.15
[download]

although it will also just install the newest version. The reason is there is no way to reliably correlate module version numbers with distributions. 02packages.details.txt.gz has the data (accessible using Parse::CPAN::Packages), but once a package is deleted from CPAN, its not listed in 02packages.details.txt.gz anymore.

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.