July 2011 Archives

Moved to Github

I've moved all my code to Github, including cpXXXan and CPANdeps. I also split the monolithic repo that used to contain all my perl modules into 41 separate repos, one per distribution, using a recipe provided by Paul Johnson.

cpXXXan update

Someone sent me a bug report for the CP5.8.8AN mirror, where his CPAN client was failing to resolve a module dependency, despite that module having passed its tests on perl 5.8.8.

The culprit was the rather badly named "common::sense", which, if you look at the distribution is a bit odd. Notice that there is no .pm file anywhere in it! Instead there's a .pm.PL file, which ExtUtils::MakeMaker runs when you 'make' the distribution. Yuck.

I've patched CPAN::ParseDi…

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