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Postings from July 2001
Just a slight adjustment to the text to make it a little bit more clear
that the $VERSION needs to have the '_' and not just the distribution name
itself.
e.
*** CPAN.pm.orig Tue Jul 3 14:50:17 2001
--- CPAN.pm Tue Jul 3 14:59:33 2001
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*** 6061,6074 ****
everything else Module or Author
Modules know their associated Distribution objects. They always refer
to the most recent official release. Developers may mark their releases
as unstable development versions (by inserting an underbar into the
! visible version number), so the really hottest and newest distribution
! file is not always the default. If a module Foo circulates on CPAN in
! both version 1.23 and 1.23_90, CPAN.pm offers a convenient way to
! install version 1.23 by saying
install Foo
This would install the complete distribution file (say
BAR/Foo-1.23.tar.gz) with all accompanying material. But if you would
--- 6061,6075 ----
everything else Module or Author
Modules know their associated Distribution objects. They always refer
to the most recent official release. Developers may mark their releases
as unstable development versions (by inserting an underbar into the
! module version number which will also be reflected in the distribution
! name when you run 'make dist'), so the really hottest and newest
! distribution is not always the default. If a module Foo circulates
! on CPAN in both version 1.23 and 1.23_90, CPAN.pm offers a convenient
! way to install version 1.23 by saying
install Foo
This would install the complete distribution file (say
BAR/Foo-1.23.tar.gz) with all accompanying material. But if you would
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