Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer

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Re: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by toolic (Bishop) on Mar 17, 2012 at 22:30 UTC
I'm afraid it will show up as my own project under my own name when I'd like it to just go to the author's space where it belongs. The version you upload will show up under your ID, not the previous author's ID. However, from your CPAN page for the module, users can look at previous versions by selecting "Other Releases". Similarly, from the previous author's CPAN page for the module, users can click on the "Latest Release" link to get to your latest version. Links to the documentation I am obviously overlooking welcome :) I don't know of any, other than the PAUSE site.	[reply]
Re^2: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 17, 2012 at 23:19 UTC
Merci beaucoup toolic, I'll run on this basis. I thought anonmonk was on the right path, but I was hoping to make this as seamless as possible for existing users. Using extra command-line options or other modules to find out if it is the latest or not doesn't seem so convenient. I'll up the current release of the distribution and find out what I find out. Thank you for your input :) Steve ps. The simplistic module is CGI::Application::Plugin::PageBuilder	[reply]
Re^3: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by Anonymous Monk on Mar 17, 2012 at 23:46 UTC
Using extra command-line options or other modules to find out if it is the latest or not doesn't seem so convenient. And its something you absolutely do not have to do. cpan Wx always installs the latest version as reported by the module list (highest version number by a co-maintainer).	[reply]
Re: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by Anonymous Monk on Mar 17, 2012 at 22:25 UTC
What is not clear to me after looking around, is how I upload the new tarball so it will show up within the original (awol) author's directory. That won't happen, and it doesn't need to happen, you have taken over maintenance ( takeover, takeover ), the hard part is over :) Because of co-maintenance he who uploads last/highest version number, wins :) https://metacpan.org/release/Wx always takes you to latest version cpanp -i Wx always installs the latest version http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/Wx makes it clear its not the latest version https://metacpan.org/release/MBARBON/Wx-0.98/ and http://search.cpan.org/dist/Wx both show a link to the latest	[reply]
Re: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 18, 2012 at 02:00 UTC
What I've found, is that it shows up under my PAUSE name, but the new version is not reflected in a CPAN search. I may be reporting this before indexing, but I thought I'd document my findings so far.	[reply]
Re^2: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2012 at 02:11 UTC
What I've found, is that it shows up under my PAUSE name, but the new version is not reflected in a CPAN search. I may be reporting this before indexing, but I thought I'd document my findings so far. Without revealing your PAUSEID or the name of the module, how much are you really documenting? http://pause.perl.org/incoming/ http://search.cpan.org/faq.html#I_have_uploaded_a_distribution_to_CPAN_but_queries_on_search.cpan.org_do_not_find_it.	[reply]
Re^3: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 18, 2012 at 02:13 UTC
As I said, the module is: `CGI::Application::Plugin::PageBuilder` [download] My CPAN author name is 'STEVEB'	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by Anonymous Monk on Mar 18, 2012 at 02:17 UTC
Re^5: Uploading a new version as a CPAN maintainer by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 18, 2012 at 02:21 UTC
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