CPANdeps now cares about perl version numbers

drhyde on 2007-11-23T17:51:27

CPANdeps now cares about what version of perl you're running. It lets you restrict test results to just the specified version, or look at all versions.

It also now uses Parse::CPAN::Packages instead of CPAN.pm to figure out what distribution each module lives in. That means that I now no longer have the huge startup time of CPAN.pm to worry about, so can drop mod_perl. Phew!


awesome!

rjbs on 2007-11-23T18:58:17

Now, to show my gratitude, another feature request! The ability to say "5.8.*"

Re:awesome!

drhyde on 2007-11-23T22:52:39

Your wish is my command.

It also now filters core modules somewhat more intelligently.

Re:awesome!

Alias on 2007-11-24T11:39:04

I was thinking more along the lines of a range instead of a wildcard...

There's ranges like "5.6.1 to 5.8.8" (the currently toolchain version range) that are interesting.

For unicode there's ranges like "5.8.5 to current" that are interesting.

If we can get two separate From and To boxes, I think that may be preferable.

Re:awesome!

drhyde on 2007-11-25T16:12:58

Patches welcome :-)