testers.cpan.org not displaying most recent version of distribution in summary
James E Keenan
http://www.cpantesters.org/show/ExtUtils-ModuleMaker.html#ExtUtils-ModuleMaker-0.51
... I see an accurate summary of CPAN testers reports for the latest
version of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker.
However, when I go to this page,
http://testers.cpan.org/author/JKEENAN.html
... which purports to report on the latest version of all my CPAN
distributions, I see that the version of ExtUtils-ModuleMaker reported
on is 0.204 -- and that this version is reported as failing 80% of the
time. Far from being the latest version, 0.204 was the last version
posted to CPAN before I took over maintenance from its creator, Geoff Avery.
Can anyone explain why testers.cpan.org is saying that such an old
version of a CPAN distribution is the latest?
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
Barbie
>
> However, when I go to this page,
>
> http://testers.cpan.org/author/JKEENAN.html
>
> ... which purports to report on the latest version of all my CPAN
> distributions, I see that the version of ExtUtils-ModuleMaker reported
> on is 0.204 -- and that this version is reported as failing 80% of the
> time. Far from being the latest version, 0.204 was the last version
> posted to CPAN before I took over maintenance from its creator, Geoff Avery.
>
> Can anyone explain why testers.cpan.org is saying that such an old
> version of a CPAN distribution is the latest?
'testers.cpan.org' is not a domain I look after, and currently runs the
last version of CPAN-WWW-Testers that Leon released back last year.
Since then I created the www.cpantesters.org domain and have updated the
code base to resolve the issues some had with the site.
The issue you see is due to a bug in Parse::BACKPAN::Packages, which
doesn't account for multiple authors for a single distribution. As
such when the report pages are created, the take the first author they
find and often reference the wrong or old versions of a distribution.
At the moment some have issues with the javascript version of the new
site, and until the flat html version is available, I'm reluctant to ask
for the old domain to be redirected. Until then the older site will
occasionally have some distributions that are not up to date.
Cheers,
Barbie.
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David Golden
You want this:
http://www.cpantesters.org/author/JKEENAN.html
-- David
Alceu R. de Freitas Jr.
>
> Can anyone explain why testers.cpan.org is saying that
> such
> an old version of a CPAN distribution is the latest?
>
I'm not sure, but check if your lastest distribution
can be reindexed by using the proper options available in
the PAUSE menu.
Maybe your distribution has some issue with directory
permissions like I had in the past. If the permission is not
OK, nothing works as expected.
Regards,
Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior
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James E Keenan
>
> The issue you see is due to a bug in Parse::BACKPAN::Packages, which
> doesn't account for multiple authors for a single distribution. As
> such when the report pages are created, the take the first author they
> find and often reference the wrong or old versions of a distribution.
>
> At the moment some have issues with the javascript version of the new
> site, and until the flat html version is available, I'm reluctant to ask
> for the old domain to be redirected. Until then the older site will
> occasionally have some distributions that are not up to date.
>
>
Barbie et al.: Thanks for looking into this.
jimk