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cpan[2]> get PDL::NetCDF
Running get for module 'PDL::NetCDF'
The module PDL::NetCDF isn't available on CPAN.
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In addition, I'm no longer getting the email from PAUSE telling of successful
indexing. I think this is because I got rid of the METAMERGE line in
Makefile.PL which adds info the META.yml.
I think I'll put back the META.yml file, but I'm not sure where to go from
there.
--Doug
>
> On Thu, 5 May 2011, Sisyphus wrote:
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Hunt"
>>
>> < Yet under the CPAN shell on
>>> my linux box, I get this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> cpan[2]> get PDL::NetCDF
>>> Running get for module 'PDL::NetCDF'
>>>
>>> The module PDL::NetCDF isn't available on CPAN.
>>>
>>> Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
>>> temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
>>> more about the status. Try 'i PDL::NetCDF'.
>>
>> I get the same on MS Windows (perl-5.12).
>>
>>> Could someone please help me get these two modules to be downloadable via
>>> the cpan shell? Any pointers or hints much appreciated!
>>
>> Does META.yml serve any vital purpose ?
>> If not, I'd remove it altogether - it's existence is surely not part of the
>> solution. (None of my modules include that file.)
>>
>> You could also try deleting some of those earlier builds (eg
>> PDL::NetCDF-4.05 and earlier). They'll still be available on backpan,
>> anyway ... and it'd be interesting to see whether the 'i PDL::NetCDF'
>> output then changes.
>>
>> On top of that, I'm not even sure that there's much to be gained by having
>> PDL::NetCDF/PDL::Graphics::PLplot obtainable via the CPAN module. Any one
>> who wants either of those modules is probably just as happy to download and
>> install manually.
>> And it's unlikely that the cpan-testers have plplot or netcdf installed -
>> so there's nothing to be gained by making those modules available to them
>> via cpan either.
>> Still ... it'd be better if 'cpan -i' *did* work as advertised ... and if I
>> had a half-decent idea as to why that's not happening, I'd share it with
>> you :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
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> I think I'll put back the META.yml file, but I'm not sure where to go
> from there.
Since your distro has no *.pm file the indexer on PAUSE cannot index it
without your help. You must provide a META.yml and it must contain a
provides entry.
I suggest you do that and if it again does not work, contact me to debug
it. Offhand I cannot see the reason why it did not work and I cannot
debug it because 4.13 has no META.yml with a provides entry.
--
andreas
I still was not able to install the module via the cpan shell. For the
next release, I'll put META.yml back in and submit it. If it still does
not work, I'll email you.
Thanks!
--Doug Hunt
dh...@ucar.edu
Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611