I've got an observation/question to make that isn't about the Perl language but instead is about our Perl infrastructure. Hope it's ok to put it at SoPW anyhow.

I went to look at what's been released recently, at metacpan.org, and found Image::ExifTool v13.35, released a day ago. On my CygwinPerl installation I have cpanplus set up to install CPAN modules. In the cpanp shell I typed i Image::ExifTool and cpanplus found v13.30, not v13.35! Is this a known thing? How would metacpan have a newer release than cpan.org? Aren't packages uploaded to cpan.org first, then somehow appear on metacpan.org?

What I did about it was this. I first ran x --update_source, which did not cause the newer Image-ExifTool to show up. Then, I uninstalled v13.30 (probably an unnecessary step). Then I downloaded the ExifTool .tar.gz package from metacpan and unrolled the archive, typed i <path to archive dir> and hit enter. Pleasingly, that worked (cpanplus does have some good features).

    — Soren

Sep 07, 2025 at 22:09 UTC

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In reply to Released modules sometimes newer on metacpan.org than on cpan.org?! by Intrepid

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