Re: Mark certain versions as "developer release" on CPAN

in reply to Mark certain versions as "developer release" on CPAN

Two other useful aspects of developer releases:

You don't get them when you access command-line CPAN.
They don't show up in search results on http://search.cpan.org.

Tip: developer releases are great for previewing smoke test results.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research — http://www.rectangular.com

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Re^2: Mark certain versions as "developer release" on CPAN by jkao (Beadle) on Aug 08, 2005 at 20:27 UTC
"don't get them when you access command-line CPAN" -- I assume this means CPAN::Shell won't install a developer release by default... Is it possible to force a developer release to be installed though? (Along with any developer-release dependencies. As opposed to manually downloading the tarball, etc.)	[reply]
Re^3: Mark certain versions as "developer release" on CPAN by creamygoodness (Curate) on Aug 09, 2005 at 01:32 UTC
Yes, it's possible to install a developer's version from the CPAN shell, complete with dependencies. You just need to specify the author's CPAN id in all caps, followed by the exact name of the distro (technically, it's the filepath relative to the authors/id directory). For example, to install the developer's version of Search::Kinosearch, you would type... `install CREAMYG/Search-Kinosearch-0.03_02.tar.gz` ... but I don't recommend it. ;) The docs for the CPAN module cover this in greater detail. -- Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research ― http://www.rectangular.com	[reply] [d/l]

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