From time to time I drop in on the perl.cpan.testers newsgroup at nntp.perl.org and notice that someone has uploaded a newer version of a module that I already have installed. I'd like to get that new version, test it and, perhaps, file a testing report of my own.

However, I find that trying to get the new version from the cpan shell doesn't always DWIM. For example, today I noticed that Fergal Daly uploaded new versions of four of his modules, each of which I have installed. See example: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/257410 for Test-Tester-0.103. Version 0.103 has made it to http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/F/FD/FDALY/ as well as to http://search.cpan.org/~fdaly/Test-Tester-0.103/ -- but it hasn't (as of 10 minutes ago) made it to ftp://ftp.cpan.org or any of the mirrors.

My ~/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm is set up with 5 ftp sites in the urllist key, so when I run the shell it fails to find 0.103 at any of those sites and defaults to my already-installed version of Test::Tester.

Now, I could simply wait for the ftp sites to catch up with www.cpan.org -- but what if I'm impatient? (A virtue, remember.) How can I get the version of the module that's hot off the author's keyboard?

TIA

Jim Keenan

In reply to Getting Modules Hot Off the Keyboard by jkeenan1

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