search.cpan visibility vs meta

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Re: search.cpan visibility vs meta by beech (Parson) on May 19, 2017 at 00:23 UTC
Hi Business::ISP::Billing points to https://metacpan.org/about/missing_modules which explains :) Missing module ? - why can I not find a specific module? Is it in the index? MetaCPAN uses the PAUSE generated 02packages.details.txt file. If it's not in there, then the module author will need to fix this. (Authors are usually emailed about this when they upload a distribution). I can see XXX on search.cpan.org but not on MetaCPAN search.cpan.org has evolved to support edge cases or have exceptions but as the code is not public we are unable to tell you what they are doing. You module doesnt seem to be in the index `$ cpanm --showdeps Business::ISP::Billing ! Finding Business::ISP::Billing on cpanmetadb failed. ! Finding Business::ISP::Billing () on mirror http://www.cpan.org fail +ed. ! Couldn't find module or a distribution Business::ISP::Billing` [download] Why is your module not indexed by the pause indexer? IIRC its probably related to the version...	[reply] [d/l]
Re: search.cpan visibility vs meta by tobyink (Canon) on May 19, 2017 at 02:16 UTC
https://metacpan.org/release/STEVEB/Business-ISP-0.13_02	[reply]
Re: search.cpan visibility vs meta by KurtZ (Friar) on May 19, 2017 at 00:19 UTC
Did you check https://metacpan.org/about/missing_modules ? The CPAN version says it's a "developer release", so I suppose the author didn't care to index it properly.	[reply]