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On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:33:17PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On 2011.11.13 8:39 AM, Reini Urban wrote: > > I've come around your hammering lately and had this idea: > > Cannot CPAN add logic to avoid downloading your new versions on older releases? > Yes, but it is non-trivial. > It would requiring creating a new index which supplies modules and versions > for every release (aka tarball and zip) instead of just the latest one. > Various folks are working on that, it is a key piece of missing information. > ... > There have also been approaches which use CPAN testers data to select the last > compatible version. Contact Dave Cantrell about that. cp5.6.2an.barnyard.co.uk And yay for killing off 5.6 support. CP5.6.2AN will, of course, continue to support it, as its versions of Test::More and ExtUtils::MakeMaker will get stuck at whatever is the last version to pass their tests. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE