CPAN: installing a developer release

Hue-Bond has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In this node, bingos announced the upcoming of POE::Component::Server::IRC-0.99. Yesterday I saw it in our beloved CPAN nodelet, so quickly ran cpan and performed a search of the module. To my surprise, the results only included the former 0.3 release. Then I began to think that this 0.99 was in some way special, because doing "[mod://POE::Component::Server::IRC]" here in PM, yields a link that goes to the 0.3 page. Finally when I clicked the CPAN nodelet link, I noticed that 0.99 is a developer release.

It could be a matter of time, so I waited until today but things have not changed. Is it normal that it doesn't appear in the cpan results? If so, what additional steps should I follow to install it?

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David Serrano

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Re: CPAN: installing a developer release by Fletch (Bishop) on Aug 29, 2006 at 14:01 UTC
Developer releases are noted by a "_\d+" suffix on the distribution version. CPAN.pm will ignore them unless you specifically ask for that release by using the full pathname (in this case it'd be something like `install B/BI/BINGOS/POE-Component-Server-IRC-0.99_02.tar.gz`).	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN: installing a developer release by xdg (Monsignor) on Aug 29, 2006 at 14:12 UTC
It's sufficient to use just the author ID without the leading directories: `cpan> install BINGOS/POE-Component-Server-IRC-0.99_02.tar.gz` [download] -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply] [d/l]