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From: Daniel Westermann-Clark <daniel@××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-perl@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-perl] [Patch] up2date-ng and CPAN package list
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:48:49
Message-Id: 20070207064810.GA29990@dulcinea.dwc.homedns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-perl] [Patch] up2date-ng and CPAN package list by Michael Cummings
1 On 2007-02-06 14:33:41 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote:
2 > One 'glitch' i'm seeing with this is that Class-MakeMethods is
3 > showing up incorrectly - looks like it might be doing a decimal
4 > munge? (1.01 is showing up as older than 1.0.14 - but in mikey math
5 > (and cpan versioning) 1.01 == 1.01.00, which is > than 1.0.14).
6
7 Dang, I missed that when I was checking the output for sanity.
8
9 The comparison in the patch is too simplistic ... to catch this case I
10 think up2date-ng.pl would need to generate a list of version numbers
11 from CPAN with zeroes in place of the decimal points (instead of
12 having the decimal points stripped).
13
14 /me goes to check if the same process would work for version numbers
15 on the Perl ebuilds
16
17 --
18 Daniel Westermann-Clark
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Re: [gentoo-perl] [Patch] up2date-ng and CPAN package list Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o>