[Bioperl-l] cpan indexing

[Chris Fields]

We can do that (release a new version).  This likely has to do with the simplification of Bio::Root::Build that went in with v 1.6.9; I can check the code to see if there was some munging that simplified this.

chris

On May 18, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Robert Buels wrote:

> Forgot to include the related reading about $VERSION:
> 
> http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#conventions
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 05/18/2011 04:57 PM, Robert Buels wrote:
>> So,
>> 
>> rob at nightshade ~$ cpanm Bio::PrimarySeq
>> --> Working on Bio::PrimarySeq
>> Fetching
>> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CJ/CJFIELDS/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz ...
>> 
>> 
>> What? 1.6.1? That's not right.
>> 
>> Looking in
>> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz, we see
>> things like:
>> 
>> Bio::Align::AlignI 1.006001 BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>> Bio::Align::DNAStatistics 1.006001 BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>> Bio::Align::Graphics 0 BioPerl-1.6.900.tar.gz
>> Bio::Align::PairwiseStatistics 1.006001 BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>> Bio::Align::ProteinStatistics 1.006001 BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>> Bio::Align::StatisticsI 1.006001 BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
>> 
>> It looks like 1.6.1 was uploaded with $VERSION of every module, while
>> 1.6.9 was not (thus the 0 version numbers). Thus, for all but the
>> omodules that were added in 1.6.9, 1.6.1 is being treated by the CPAN
>> indexer as the most recent distribution.
>> 
>> This probably calls for another release, 1.6.910 or something, with
>> $VERSION in each file. :-(
>> 
>> Rob
> 
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