Re: Problem with CPAN and module version numbers

Try running the following command in the CPAN shell:

cpan> install D/DC/DCONWAY/Smart-Comment-1.01.tar.gz
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That's happened to one of my modules before - AUTRIJUS hasn't made DCONWAY a co-maintainer yet. Email both of them and let them know what's going on.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: Problem with CPAN and module version numbers by TheDamian (Vicar) on Oct 30, 2005 at 15:45 UTC
Actually, the problem is that Smart::Comments uses the (soon-to-be-core) version.pm module for its versioning, but the PAUSE indexer is not yet able to understand these new-style version numbers. So CPAN.pm ignores the more recent upload and finds only Autrijus' original release. `:-(` Damian	[reply]
Re^3: Problem with CPAN and module version numbers by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Oct 30, 2005 at 20:24 UTC
The latest Module::Build release has the same problem - it treats '0.0.2' as a string, not a number, so you get a lot of "'0.0.2' is not a number in ..." warnings. I ran into that when doing work with Contextual::Return. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]