Andreas König

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• Posted How does one currently get a count of downstream deps? to Andreas König

  I don't think this is documented anywhere, so let me blog about it before I forget it. Install the module CPANDB. See if it works by running one sample program, maybe:

    use CPANDB;
    use YAML::Syck;
    print Dump [CPANDB::Distribution->select
               ("order by volatility desc li…

• Posted Guess who has written 401 RT tickets in 2010 to Andreas König

  And what is most amazing about it? That 186 or 46% are either resolved

  If you have a login on rt.cpan.org you can issue ="https://rt.cpan.org/Search/Build.html?NewQuery=1&WatcherField=Requestor.Name&WatcherOp=%3D&ValueOfWatche…

• Commented on The CPAN client version-less dependency problem
  Why not simply follow the lead of the guys who write 365 RT tickets per year? The recipe seems to me quite easy to follow: As an author you start out by writing down as many dependencies as you know...
• Commented on Tracking Down Bug Reports
  Please don't! I'd greatly prefer people to use an idiom that's more compliant with what we have already in place. Important second level dependencies should be added to the prerequisites declaration right away. If they later turn out to be...
• Posted So, you got mixed results from cpantesters? to Andreas König

  Every so often you may have found yourself puzzled by the results the cpantesters provided, wondering which reasons may stand behind the fails or passes.

  So you click on one of the FAIL reports and it doesn't reveal anything useful to you?

  Chances are that if the reports contain so…

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• http://oid.fox.geek.nz/kent.fredric commented on The CPAN client version-less dependency problem

  With regard to "Report what versions of things the author was using when they made this release" aspect of this problem, I did write a dist::zilla plugin ( MetaData::BuiltWith ) for this purpose:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-MetaData-BuiltWith/

  The most verbose incantation ( MetaData::BuiltWith::All ) is probably a bit excessive, but you get a somewhat reliable report of what versions of everything can be used to attain a working install of the authors module.

  The i…

• bart commented on The CPAN client version-less dependency problem

  "Are you sure you want to install this shiny new version of Web::Some::Thingy but still use your 4 year old copy of DBD::SQLite? Install the new DBD::SQLite? [Y/n]"

  You could present this info as a possible remedy in case some of the tests fail.

  But if the author didn't include a single test that can demonstrate that there is a problem: bad author, no cookie!