Re^2: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck)

Noticed an inconsistency in the name of this module. Searching CPAN brings up this result:

Search results for "Astro::Montenbruck"

Astro::Montenbruck - Lightweight Ephemeris

The top of the page shows this (note the dash):

Sergey Krushinsky / Astro-Montenbruck-1.26 / Astro::Montenbruck

The perldoc says:

NAME

Montenbruck - Lightweight Ephemeris

ExtUtils does find the module with a dash instead of colons:

perl -MExtUtils::Installed -MData::Dumper -le 'print Dumper(ExtUtils::
+Installed->new->files("Astro-Montenbruck"))'
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Re^3: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck) by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 04, 2023 at 22:26 UTC
That's normal behaviour, distributions usually have names different to the modules they contain. A colon is not permitted in file names in MSWin32, so you can't name your distribution archive Astro::Montenbruck-1.26.tgz. Cf. my Syntax::Construct. The ExtUtils find is weird, though: `perl -MExtUtils::Installed -MData::Dumper -le 'print Dumper(ExtUtils:: +Installed->new->files("Syntax::Construct"))' $VAR1 = '/home/choroba/perl5/lib/perl5/Syntax/Construct.pm'; $VAR2 = '/home/choroba/perl5/man/man3/Syntax::Construct.3pm'; perl -MExtUtils::Installed -MData::Dumper -le 'print Dumper(ExtUtils:: +Installed->new->files("Syntax-Construct"))' Syntax-Construct is not installed at -e line 1.` [download] `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2023 at 00:26 UTC
The ExtUtils find is weird I've never ever had to use a dash instead of colons to find a module with ExtUtils::Installed. I think that since Astro::Montenbruck can be found by ExtUtils with a dash, and not found with the usual colons, suggests that the author put a dash in some config file where there should have been colons. I tried the dash out of desperation and was shocked that it worked. Perhaps this is related to the failure to install the scripts?	[reply]
Re^5: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck) by choroba (Cardinal) on Feb 05, 2023 at 10:44 UTC
Indeed: https://metacpan.org/release/KRUSHI/Astro-Montenbruck-1.26/source/Build.PL#L5: `module_name => 'Astro-Montenbruck',` [download] Compare it to https://metacpan.org/release/LEONT/Module-Build-0.4232/source/Build.PL#L26: `module_name => 'Module::Build',` [download] `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 05, 2023 at 16:52 UTC
Re^7: Something wrong with metacpan.org? (or Astro::Montenbruck) by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 05, 2023 at 19:34 UTC


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