syphilis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
Further to CPAN's rendering of POD links (which deals with the incorrect rendering of the Inline::C-Cookbook pod weblink on CPAN), before I upload another bugfix version of Inline::C to CPAN, I'd like to check that the problem pod link is going to work correctly in the next release.
In order to do that, I would like to upload to CPAN some bogus/useless distro - a distro that does nothing other than verify that I've worked out how to deal with that problem with the pod weblink.

Is there a preferred namespace to use when uploading such "testing-the-water" distros to CPAN ? Is it ok to do this ? (Once I've verified that I've got it right, the bogus/useless distro will be removed from CPAN - but, I guess, will still be locatable on backpan.)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re: CPAN test facility
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 30, 2009 at 00:45 UTC
    Acme. You should consult search.cpan.org admin regarding pod rendering/linking
Re: CPAN test facility
by DStaal (Chaplain) on Jun 30, 2009 at 20:40 UTC

    I'd use a 'development' distro: Version numbers of the form 'X.X_X' are considered non-release versions, and will be superseded by version 'X.X'.