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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 12:40:04 +1000
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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To: "McLean, Grant" <grant.mclean@bearingpoint.com>
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Subject: Re: [mp2] Module naming
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McLean, Grant wrote:
> Perrin Harkins wrote:
> 
>>We are getting too many questions along the lines of 
>>"I tried to run Apache::Foo on mod_perl 2 and it didn't work"
>>for modules which no one has tried to port yet.  
>>Or maybe we just need a document listing modules that have
>>been ported.
> 
> 
> A separate document sounds like a potential maintenance problem.
> 
> The POD or README for a module would seem to be a good place
> for Apache module authors to declare their mod_perl version 
> support.  That way people can tell from browsing search.cpan.org
> whether something is expected to work before they even download
> it.
> 
> Of course the default assumption at the moment should probably
> be that if a module doesn't say which version of the mod_perl
> API it was written to then it almost certainly only works with
> the 1.0 API.  How we communicate to people that that should be
> the default assumption is a tricky problem.

I'll shortly post a proposal to p5p/module-authors suggesting a cpan/pause 
support for this kind of version requirements. There is a whole new META.yaml 
thing, that all CPAN module developers will become familiar with soon. And it 
should provide the necessary information to users. Next 
CPAN.pm/search.cpan.org, etc should be able to help users to make right decisions.

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