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2005-10-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de>
* Applied three patches by Slaven Rezic, David Storrs, and Toni
Prug. Untested--just to get it out the door. All patches look very
reasonable, but I repeat: untested, so we make it a developer
version.
2005-09-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm: Integrate patch by Slaven Rezic to support a notest
pragma (undocumented); take CPAN::Version into a sparate file
2005-09-18 Andreas Koenig <andk@cpan.org>
* Shame, two years without a release. Most of the code in this
release has been collected by perl5porters over the last two
years. Thanks a lot to all of them. The whole Module::Signature
code has been written by Autrijus two years ago and I have to
apologize that I didn't make a release with it. Real life was
intruding too strongly.
I have made cautious changes to the version comparison functions,
anticipating the likely changes we're gonna see with a better
indexer on CPAN courtesy John Peacock.
I'm releasing 1.76_51 as an orientation for CPANPLUS so we can
find the smoothest transition possible between the old and the new
indexer.
The new indexer will be based on version.pm 0.48 and will bring
the substantial change that all modules that are using version
strings will be represented as floats according to the conversion
routine implemented in version.pm. Up to now the conversion from
version strings to floats was lossy but with the new version.pm it
is a well defined 1 to 1 mapping. See version.pm for the details.
To make the transition smoother, I'm intending to leave the
indexer with the old algorithm for all strings that look like
floating point numbers, and for other strings that contain an
underline character or alphabetical stuff.
Future plans: once we have rolled out the version related changes,
I'm planning to fix open bugs and integrate waiting patches that
have not yet made their way into CPAN.pm.
2003-09-20 Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Tiny tweak for the rare case that a module has an author who has
no email so seems to be inexistent. CGI::Request triggered this bug.
2003-07-31 Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* The pumpkin has asked for a longer testing period of the PKI
stuff. So 1.76 removes the stuff from Makefile.PL and CPAN.pm. We
expect to have several 1.76_XX releases for testing.
2003-07-29 Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Applying patches 20294, 20295, and 20306 in the perforce
repository with the subject lines: There is no skip() since we are
not using Test*. unlink pre-PGP-signed CHECKSUM. Too many my
$fh:s.
* Added missing 'use File::Spec' directive to the Makefile.PL
(Thanks to Tom Metro)
* Reworked the 'make dist' sequence to make sure that I won't
again sign before META.yml is written (1.73 has a broken SIGNATURE
because of this mistake)
2003-07-27 Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Signed the distribution myself with my GnuPG key
* Integrated patch from Autrijus Tang to support digital
signatures.
2003-07-04 Andreas J Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* This is 1.71
2003-05-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* FirstTime.pm: Do not mention POLLUTE=1 anymore. It's an old
option that isn't interesting anymore nowadays. (Thanks to Michael
Schilli for the hint)
2003-04-12 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Makefile.PL: do not require FirstTime anymore
2003-04-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN.pm: mydie was called as function instead of method
2003-04-05 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::FTP: Try maybe_command on $CPAN::Config->{ftp} plus minor
cleanup.
2003-04-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN.pm: Better error message when encountering a recursive
dependency: it was just 'panic' and shows now the dependency
graph.
2003-03-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Nox.pm: add a '1;' at the end. Thanks to Dan Kogai for finding
the buglet.
* CPAN.pm: document 'o conf init' in the manpage. Thanks to Slaven
Rezic for noticing the missing docs.
2003-03-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Makefile.PL: dependency on File::Spec 0.8 due to
CPAN::MakeMaker's use of splitdir
2003-03-13 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Change error message "Subprocess error" by "Subprocess exit code
$code". Suggestion by Slaven Rezic.
* Introduce support flag "abandoned" for DSLIP. Warn if users want
to install an abandoned module
* When determining the "CPAN_USERID" in Module->as_string, try
first userid from 03modlist, then CPAN_USERID from 02modules. They
need not be identical: WPS has uploaded his distro, then KSTAR
took the module over, but has not yet uploaded.
2003-03-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* add "abandoned" flag to the Support item in the DSLIP status
* CPAN::FirstTime: Remove WAIT configuration
* Bundle::CPAN: remove CPAN::WAIT from the bundle
2003-02-28 Brian Ingerson <ingy@cpan.org>
* CPAN's use of CPAN::MakeMaker caused an ironic but serious bug.
It installed CPAN::MakeMaker into installprivlib, rendering
modules that used CPAN::MakeMaker potentially uninstallable. The
solution is to patch CPAN.pm's install process to detect and cure
infected systems. This will take time to propagate out, as people
upgrade to this and future versions of CPAN.pm. Eventually the
problem will fade away. I hope. The irony is that only CPAN.pm (by
the nature of its name) could cause ExtUtils to install
CPAN::MakeMaker. Why me?!
* This patch relies on a special version (0.12) of CPAN::MakeMaker
which was written for this situation, and will not be released
onto CPAN.
2003-02-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Bundle::look: now dispatches to as_string. Thanks to
Juergen Christoffel for the suggestion.
2003-02-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm: protect code running without a terminal from dying
on $term->can.
2003-02-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Fixes for Win32, irrelevant for all other platforms. No code
changes in CPAN.pm. Moved "cpan" to "scripts/cpan" to avoid name
clash with the CPAN directory. Removed the second ".PHONY" line in
CPAN::MakeMaker.
2003-02-05 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm (savehist, CPAN::shell): new config variables
histfile and histsize control saving and retrieving of history.
* Explain the status of CPAN.pm vs. CPANPLUS.pm in the POD
* Documentation: mention FTP_PASSIVE; courtesy Peter Valdemar
Mørch
2002-11-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* correct all split commands to use a regex instead of a string.
Thanks to Rafael Garcia-Suarez for detecting the abuse.
2002-11-17 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* BUNDLE/Test/{Builder,More}.pm: Strip POD from the two bundled
modules.
2002-11-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Makefile.PL: Switch to CPAN::MakeMaker for this one experimental
release. The implications of CPAN::MakeMaker are yet to be
evaluated. Here I use the "True Bundle" feature to add Test::More
and Test::Builder and remove the dependency on them.
2002-11-12 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm (read_mirrored_by): Bill Pollock made me
aware about simple mistakes that can be avoided in the URL
selection dialogue (entering URL strings instead of numbers,
entering leading or trailing whitespace). With a few simple tweaks
these should be avoided in the future.
2002-10-20 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm: the last few patches also fixed accidentally some
"redefined" warnings during "reload cpan".
2002-09-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Roland Bauer sent me a patch that carefully appended a trailing
newline to a couple of "mywarn" messages that came without it.
* CPAN::FirstTime::display_some: Change the displayed dialogue to
make clear that SPACE ENTER is the trick to page through results.
Correct some indenting and trailing whitespace. Remove some unused
variables.
* print_ornamented: Newline fix for various Windows systems by
Roland Bauer
2002-09-03 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::FirstTime::init: Catch non-absolute path in cpan_home.
2002-08-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* New version of the cpan script by brian d foy.
2002-07-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Releasing as 1.62.
* cpan: beefed-up cpan script courtesy brian d foy.
* Makefile.PL: deactivate PREREQ_PM for File::Spec in case we are
running under 5.6.0, otherwise 5.6.0's CPAN.pm would download
5.8.0 just for File::Spec.
2002-05-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Releasing as 1.61.
* The default WAIT server has got a new domain name:
ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
* Protecting against not existing $META->{is_tested} element.
2002-04-21 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Repackaging, no changes in the code. The reason is that
search.cpan.org could not grok the format of my ChangeLog file
which mixed POD and non-POD. Now ChangeLog is POD-free and old
Changes are in Changes.old. Going to package as 1.60b.
2002-04-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Change the quoting in system command for Windows systems. Thanks
to Alessandro Forghieri <alf at orion dot it> for the report.
* merge with bleadperl
2001-06-16 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Typo Frontent->Frontend in three places. Thanks to Rich Williams
for spotting.
2001-05-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* manpage_headline: fixed the NAME parsing regular expression to
ignore headlines that just start with NAME. Thanks to Jost Krieger
for spotting.
2001-05-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Bundle::look: disable the look command on bundles. Till
now it meant to recursively look into all members. This could be
time-consuming and even hard to interrupt. As I know nothing else
one could expect from look(Bundle), I decided to disable it
completely.
2001-04-xx Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Do not remember exact date: Applied a patch by Gisle Aas to
replace MD5 by Digest::MD5.
2001-02-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Releasing as 1.59_54.
* CPAN::Tarzip::TIEHANDLE: Applied a patch by Robin Barker
<rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> about a wrong error message ("Could pipe"
instead of "Could not pipe")
2001-02-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Index::rd_modpacks: Add a stalenes warning if the index
file is older than 30 days. Thanks to "tanbin"
<tiger40490@yahoo.com> for the report.
* To improve the protection against stale mirrors, add a global
for $CPAN::Index::DATE_OF_02 to keep track of the currently used
index. This is also stored in the cache. It will be printed as a
reminder whenever a fetch fails and whenever the metadata are
retrieved from the index file or via Storable.
2001-01-02 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Author::as_glimpse): added email address
* CPAN::Shell::a: uppercasing any argument broke experimental
advanced query. Made conditional on the existence of an equal sign
now.
2000-12-31 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* POD: add a description of the ls command.
* Improve documentation of support for authenticated proxies.
* CPAN::Bundle::contains: Bail out if there is no inst_file and
cpan_file eq "N/A". Old code would have tried to download N/A.
2000-12-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* normalize: Fix bug with "Strange distribution name" if it is
"Contact Author..."
2000-12-26 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::LWP::UserAgent: new class to customize proxy
authentication. Thanks to David C Worenklein for a working
implementation that I could use as a basis.
2000-12-19 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* manpage: Added a pointer to the Japanese translation.
2000-12-13 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* FAQ: While working on the FAQ mirroring item, I discovered that
we need a mirror command because "get" unwraps the tarfiles as a
side effect, which is not nice. Mirror() will do nothing if source
is a "file:" URL. It will probably understand force to override
that. It will copy to ~/.cpan/sources but leave the file unopened
and untouched. Backed out the FAQ item until we have that fixed.
2000-12-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Distribution::normalize: Did not work correctly for
authors that have subdirectories in their CPAN directory. Was
counting slashes, am now also checking against a regexp.
* cpl: make completion work with "get".
* CPAN::Shell::ls: Reject arguments not matching [A-Z\-] to
prevent /.../ expansion which neither worked nor is considered
useful.
* CPAN::Shell::h: include ls command
* variable naming: rename $date_of_03 and $last_time to uppercase
counterparts. Globals must stand out visually.
* FAQ: Adding "How do I set up a local CPAN mirror that does not
contain things I'm not interested in?". Thanks to Paul Moore for
asking the question (but see above, the article was removed for
further consideration on 2000-12-13)
* CPAN::Author::id: add a sanity check, first letter must be A-Z
2000-12-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Distribution::look: Protect against empty $dir and use
safe_chdir instead of chdir.
2000-12-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* get: finished the treatment of the NFS racing condition that
motivated many of the recent changes in get(). Thanks for
reporting and heavy testing to Steffen Beyer.
* Releasing as 1.59_51.
* normalize: protect against the case when normalize is called
without argument.
* Thanks to Jeremy Wadsack who read the first sketch of the
documentation of the programmer's interface and provided helpful
comments and additions.
* Declaring 1.58_93 as 1.59 and releasing as such to have a stable
baseline again. 1.58_93 had been integrated into the development
track of 5.7.0 with patch 7737 on 2000/11/18.
2000-11-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Distribution::get: removed a special case that was never
documented and apparently never worked: when keep_source_where
matched /^no/, we tried to delete the source again after an
installation.
* POD: documented expandany
* CPAN::Bundle::inst_file: now takes the newest Bundle definition
file it finds within @INC and ~/.cpan/Bundle/. Sets INST_VERSION
as side effect. CPAN::Bundle::inst_version calls inst_file.
* CPAN::Distribution::uptodate: New method.
* CPAN::Bundle::uptodate: New method. Thanks to Jeremy Wadsack who
discovered that an uptodate method for Bundles was missing.
* POD: Wrote at least the headlines for all public methods to make
a second step at opening CPAN.pm for programmers.
2000-11-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Admin (CPAN::Shell::register): opened for XML, Tk, and Apache.
* CPAN::Author::ls: include the author's ID in the listing to make
copy&paste easier.
* normalize: Allowed the special case "N/A ..." for bundles.
* CPAN::Complete::cpl: made completion for bundles work on install
et al.
* localize: Encountered a C<Can't locate object method "new" via
package "LWP::UserAgent"> although has_usable returned true. Could
not find out the reason, so I wrapped it into an eval.
2000-11-23 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Sending as 1.58_94 to Steffen, no release to avoid confusion.
* Due to a bug report by Steffen Beyer I added a whole lot of
debugging statements to get in the hope, I can find a reason why
his copy misbehaves under 5.00503.
* CPAN::Distribution::get: Fixed indenting in get(). Added $! to
the error messages there.
2000-11-22 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::FirstTime::conf_sites: Added the option to download a
MIRRORED.BY immediately even if the local one seems fresh enough.
* POD: Lots of fixes spotted by John P. Linderman
2000-11-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Fixed an incompatibility with 5.00503 discovered by Ask B.
Hansen.
2000-11-14 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm: MyConfig/Config buglet during
site-picking and more verbosity for selecting good arguments for
make (Thanks to Larry Virden for the report)
* print_ornamented: Made shell output ornamenting dependent on a
global variable $CPAN::Shell::PRINT_ORNAMENTING. It is and will
stay a rarely used feature, so a global to turn it on and off
seems appropriate. For the record: this does not do anything but
colorize STDOUT and STDERR differently for debugging if all
messages are wrapped correctly.
2000-11-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Admin: Made the machine name of PAUSE a constant.
2000-11-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* rematein: Enable dump of Author objects (was the useless silly
message)
* Two (temporary) global variables introduced:
$CPAN::Tarzip::BUGHUNTING enables naughty code that may help track
some bugs in Archive::Tar (already reported to SRZ). And
$CPAN::Shell::ADVANCED_QUERY turns on a form of the query like
C<m userid=RFOLEY> or
C<m userid=~FOL> or
C<d cpan_userid=RFOLEY>
But this syntax is highly experimental and WILL change, do not
rely on it.
2000-11-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Module::userid: change to mean either CPAN_USERID from
02modules or userid from 03modlist. Up to now it only meant the
latter. As both are always identical, we could save some space by
renaming CPAN_USERID to userid. --> Todo
2000-11-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Complete::cpl: Make completion work for locally installed
bundles on the first try, not just the second.
* CPAN::Complete::cpl: Make completion for authors work even when
lowercase was typed in so far.
* releasing as 1.58_90
* CPAN::Module::name: was an alias for &cpan_file. That made the m
command slow without any visible advantage. C<m /html-tree/> used
to find the modules in the distribution HTML-Tree-XXX and now
doesn't anymore. But this is misfeature as we have both <d
/html-tree/> and <i /html-tree/> for that.
* cpan_file: Fixed a bug that could instantiate an empty Author
object.
2000-11-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* format_result: Add a summary line at the end how many items in
the set.
* print_ornamented: Moved the special-case for fullname to
print-ornamented to be prepared for other UTF-8 fields besides
fullname (Try with C<m Sub::Curry>)
2000-11-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Released as 1.58_57
* CPAN::Shell::ls: I believe, ls is now fully functional, but it
still needs some work on PAUSE to be perceived as bugfree. Thu
left undocumented (but it's already useful as it is, even
completion works; if you're interested: give it only authors as
arguments).
* CPAN::shell: Detect parse errors when Text::ParseWords fails
without die()ing, like in C<d Documentum's>.
* CPAN::Distribution::normalize: Try A/AC/ACALPINI/foo when the
user says ACALPINI/foo. I have only tested for the C<rematein>
family and the C<d> command so far. Need to find all places where
the normalization is needed.
* CPAN::Module::as_string: improved manpage parsing on files with
CRLF in them.
2000-11-04 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Releasing as 1.58_56.
* CPAN::Shell::local_bundles: Did not discover local bundle files
if they were nested. Thanks to Ask B. Hansen for the report.
* CPAN::Shell::ls: Started work on an ls command. Left
undocumented because not yet finished. Needs mtime in CHECKSUMS
file.
* localize: Improved messaging when we try to download a
compressed file instead of an uncompressed.
* o conf: Made C<o conf -Module> to mean remove Module debugging
from the current debugging settings. Handy when you turn on "all"
and discover that Module is too noisy.
2000-10-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* FAQ about readline: Thanks to Joseph Kewish
<jkewish@thedrag.com> who knew the correct answer.
2000-10-28 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* untar: again change preference to tag+gzip to hunt down a bug in
Archive::Tar.
* Admin's register: Forgive when URI::Escape isn't installed yet
and let it be installed while we're running.
2000-10-27 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Releasing snapshot as 1.58_55.
* CPAN::Admin::register: do not run a get if the command line
already contains more than one arguments.
2000-10-26 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Added documentation for CPAN::shell and term_is_latin.
* CPAN::Author::fullname: convert to latin1 if
$CPAN::Config->{term_is_latin} is set to true.
* CPAN::Module::as_glimpse and CPAN::Shell::_u_r_common: enabled
coloring of module names that are already registered in the module
list. This feature bloat will have to go away in a future version,
but for a while it might prove useful. The diffs between RCS 1.361
and 1.362 should then be applied reversed. The feature bloat is
only visible when the global $CPAN::Shell::COLOR_REGISTERED is
set, no visible changes are made otherwise.
* Added CPAN::Admin in an extra file. The subclass is for CPAN
admins only. For others it is an instructive programming example.
I consider the programming environment still alpha and need
feedback on its usefulness. E.g. I consider it ugly that
CPAN::Shell::expand and CPAN::instance have such a B<slightly>
different interface. I hate it that testing C<$m->{RO}{something}>
creates the RO slot. I'm unsure what one could make easier when
expand() returns a list of objects instead of a single object.
* cpl: made CPAN::Complete::cpl more flexible by assigning all
commands to the global @COMMANDS and offering a fallback for the
second word to modules and bundles when an unknown command is
entered. CPAN::Admin takes advantage of this feature.
2000-10-25 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* shell: The C<$term||=> change of 2000-10-20 broke the
re-detection of ReadLine for fresh installations. Fixed that again
so that both ways are possible: disposing the Stub interface and
re-using an interface that is better than Stub.
2000-10-21 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::shell: Now takes two arguments, one is the prompt, the
second is the default initial command line.
* Released this snapshot as 1.58_51
* hosthard: applied a patch by Michael Dean
<sysmwd@blackhole.detir.qld.gov.au> to support wget.
2000-10-20 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Distribution::containsmods: Did not return a value, now
returns the contained modules
* CPAN::Distribution::get: chdir back to initial CWD
* CPAN::anycwd: new routine replaces all occurrences of replicated
two-line code
* shell: chdir-ing back to initial directory at end of CPAN::shell
* CPAN::exists: added a config loader because everything depends
on it. Will have to identify other places that need it.
* shell: Assignment of a readline interface to term now is a "||="
rather than a "=" in case somebody calls shell multiple times.
* Moved the call to read_metadata_cache from shell to
CPAN::Index::reload so that (1) it isn't called so early and (2)
programmers can enjoy its availability too.
* CPAN::Config::commit: die when you can't write the config file.
We did only warn, but it is more frustrating to repeatedly get the
same questions asked than to get at least a good error message.
Will have to catch some error conditions earlier.
2000-10-18 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::Module::as_string: up to now the MANPAGE attribute was
only generated for installed modules. Now we try to read the
manpage headline if a get has been issued so that a build_dir
exists. This is helpful for exploring CPAN without installing
anything, e.g. when you have no or only slow access to a WAIT
server.
* Releasing as 1.58
2000-10-15 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* FAQ: two new FAQ items added: autobundle and readline
2000-10-07 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Setting Version to 1.57_68RC
* POD: numbering FAQ items; rewording of FAQ item 6 about bundles;
introduced FAQ item 7 about CPAN::Site.
* CPAN::FirstTime::init: Making cache_metadata default to 1.
* missing_config_data: Making cache_metadata a reason to rerun
configuration.
2000-09-29 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* CPAN::DESTROY: Protected the call to $gz->gzclose with an if
defined $gz. Thanks to abigail for reporting the bug, apologies
that I'm also not sure if this fixes the cause, or just the
sympton.
* has_inst: 2nd warning for not having installed Net::FTP
silencified with a global (Thanks to Anno Siegel for the
suggestion)
2000-09-16 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* 1.57_67 is a release candidate.
* FirstTime: rewording of the intro for the cache_metadata feature
from experimental to beta. Leaving default to off. As it is still
turned off, I do not add the feature to the "necessary" features
in sub missing_config_data. Will do so when default changes to on.
* untar: for running the pipe, the external programs gzip and tar
are OK to use but for a pure uncompress I prefer to use our own
method gunzip for maximum code reuse (fallback to external gzip is
there anyway) and less use of system().
* hosthard: after Jost has approved that the code now is much more
defensive against the install-an-inexistent-distribution errors,
now the funkyftp programs are disallowed to process C<file> URLs
at all.
2000-09-12 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* get: userid "anon" if cpan_userid does not provide one.
* 1.57_66 for the sole purpose of testing the error provoked by
the old lynx version. Next version will disable lynx for file:
URLs and thus will doubly guard against the bug.
* untar and gtest: enabled gtest with Compress::Zlib again, now
with a test if the file size and buffer size are equal. In that
case gtest returns false. untar now also uses gtest ahead of
decompression to catch the error condition provoked by
DB<5> x system "echo -n | /bin/tar xvf -"
0 0
The fact that tar returns TRUE on zero byte input could lead us to
believe that we were doing a successful untar while in reality we
had an uncompressed file that was completely bogus.
Once again a big thank you to Jost Krieger who discovered this bug
by feeding an inexistent distribution name to install() while he
had an old version of lynx installed that did not discover the
mistake and created the file as textfile containing an error
message.
2000-09-11 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* gtest: disabled Compress::Zlib because it seems to offer no
method to test if a file is compressed or not. If a file was not
compressed, it happily treats it "as expected" setting no error. I
was so sure that I tested this when it was introduced. We really
need a test harness.
* get: New instance variable had_no_makefile_pl
* get: New instance variable was_uncompressed to later use it for
heuristics if we're on the wrong track.
* If we write a Makefile.PL on our own, we now choose the NAME
parameter more carefully.
* Ask user if he wants to proceed if the CHECKSUM file does not
contain data about a downloded file.
* hosthard: Skip "file" URLs
* hosthardest: eliminated unused code for is_reachable
2000-09-10 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Tarball 1.57_65 (63 and 64 were not uploaded because I found
errors during testing)
* Bundle::inst_file: cleanup
* unsat_prereq: decision to accept any installed version if
PREREQ_PM says 0 or "undef" or undef.
* follow_prereqs: broke this new method out of make because I want
to repeat it in test. Repeating the check in test has the
advantage that the user is reminded in time that still some prereq
is missing.
2000-09-09 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Tarball 1.57_63.
* rd_modpacks: do not let bundles be both bundles and modules
anymore. Seems like memory bloat without any value.
* reload: $last_time was set too early to a new value. It seems to
have never manifested itself as a bug, but we now do the more
correct localizing of the newer timestamp until we have read all
three index files and then set the timestamp globally.
* reload and read_metadata_cache: extend the index protocol to
memory so that whenever a new protocol is introduced, the index
gets loaded into memory asap.
* instance vs set: moved the code that creates the RO pointer from
instance to set and commenting the set method to have this side
effect. This was the cause for a very difficult to diagnose bug.
Thanks to Jost Krieger for discovering wrong content in Metadata.
2000-09-08 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* read_metadata_cache: More sanity checks.
* _u_r_common: Added informational message about the number of
matches in the database.
* checklock: Checking $fh for undef. Thanks to
Slaven Rezic for the report.
2000-09-06 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm (expandany): Distributions always had the habit to
spring into existence, that means, people could say
test A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.57_60.tar.gz
and got that thing downloaded if it existed on CPAN. Jost
discovered this was broken. Fixed by replacing an expand() by
instance() for distributions in expandany.
2000-09-05 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* undelay: After a jumpqueue we must not continue because success
is unlikely. We set $self->{later} and the queuerunner calls
undelay.
* Bundle::inst_file: reviewed the code after Jost pointed out that
it was suspectly formatted. Re-enabled the newer, better code that
allows for multi-level Bundle package names.
* Distribution::install: improved wording for the case where make
failed (Thanks To Jost Krieger for spotting)
* Bundle::as_string: CONTAINS was rendered as ARRAY(...)
* expandany: added a scan for bundles as one could not install
bundles immediately after program start but only after a "b"
command (Thanks to Jost Krieger for the bugreport)
* color_cmd_tmps: protection against deep recursion with a panic
message.
* expand: temporary introduced the "=" hack to eval code on the
command line repeatedly. Now disabled again to prevent surprise.
But as a reminder, I did run this command successfully before
disabling:
cpan> m '=length($self->id)==16 && substr($self->id,12,2) eq "::"'
Module Bundle::HTML::EP (N/A)
Module Games::Cards::Tk (A/AK/AKARGER/Games-Cards-1.45.tar.gz)
Module Games::Worms::PS (S/SB/SBURKE/Games-Worms-0.61.tar.gz)
Module Games::Worms::Tk (S/SB/SBURKE/Games-Worms-0.61.tar.gz)
Module Lingua::Stem::En (S/SN/SNOWHARE/Lingua-Stem-0.40.tar.gz)
* color_cmd_tmps: we're now coloring all objects when they enter
the queue and we uncolor them when a command is finished. We just
need a hook now to check if we really uncolored them all. What
should the hook be? i ="$self->{incommandcolor}>0"
2000-09-04 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* color_cmd_tmps: rename the method reset_badtestcnt to
color_cmd_tmps because it turns out to be the right place to reset
sponsored_mods and maybe install_failed too, and if we mark them
as dirty when used and as clean when reset, we might even succeed
to have a tidy kitchen.
* untar: backed out the preference towards Archive::Tar. It seems
from reports I get and one hiccups I witnessed myself that
Archive::Tar is not stable (sorry, no bugreport available). With
the current state of CPAN.pm we cannot afford the additional risk
from an external source.
* Queue: backed out the change from string based queue to object
based queue. I made some mistakes during transition and everything
stopped working. This seemed the easiest way out.
* reset_testcnt: introduced attribute badtestcnt for Modules,
Bundles, and Distributions and method reset_badtestcnt to get rid
of that counter before and after a command. During the command we
inc the counter on unsuccessful make test commands. But we do not
reset unknown dependencies. During 'make test' we up this counter
if test fails and consequently do not repeat the testing. This
should now safe much time if, say LWP tests fail and we have all
of WWW::RobotRules, File::Listing, LWP, HTTP::Negotiate,
HTML::Form, and LWP::Simple in a Bundle or reach the stuff via a
dependency. Former versions would have repeated the testing ad
nauseam. We now refuse on the second occasion and the user may be
required to run something to finish building.
* prereq_pm: split of method needs_prereq into unsat_prereq_pm and
prereq_pm and letting the prereq_pm be stored in the object
* cpl: added readme and dump to the list of supported keywords for
completion
* POD: documented the dump command in the debugging section of the
manpage. Simplified the debugging section.
* changed queue to work with objects instead of object IDs
making it more natural to deal with them. Having the string
representation there bit me several times in the past. At the same
time shuffled some code from the queue-running loop to the
queue-constructing loop thus catching errors before starting to
work on the queue.
* renamed dotdot_onreload to paintdots_onreload. Changed $redef
from global to lexical.
* lib/CPAN.pm (dump): made dump more userfriendly by adding a
print statement, it is now a regular command to type C<dump
Net::FTP>. But still left undocumented to augment comments from
those who read the ChangeLog (That's you:)
2000-09-03 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* heavy re-structuring of Metadata in memory with high potential
for breakage. All metadata are now split into a readonly and a
read-write part and all objects have a pointer to the readonly
part. The Metadata cache logic stores only the readonly part, so
that no session-specific data will ever be found again in a future
session.
* AUTOLOAD: removed the autoloader support that was never used and
seems not very intersting anymore with today's hardware. RCS: 1.325
* removed all the %vd comments.
* shortened all lines longer than 80 characters to make future
patches better readable.
* read_metadata_cache: Introduced protocol version number for
Metadata.
* removing a 'no strict' around the shell loop I do not recall the
reason of.
* lib/CPAN.pm: Folding two occurrances of use vars into one.
2000-09-01 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* lib/CPAN.pm (readable): After release spotted en error in the
FAQ about not being root. Improved it a little, added another FAQ
and gave it the VERSION 1.57_57.
* Releasing as 1.57_56 as candidate for 5.7.0
* missing_config_data and FirstTime: declared cache_metadata as
not yet stable enough to turn it on per default. The reason is
that I want the official external data from CPAN and the generated
internal data from the current session clearly separated and this
will take another working session that I cannot provide before
5.7.0.
2000-08-31 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* POD: Added two FAQs about not being root and about the look
command.
* Replaced all backticks that were misused in documentation or
dialogs as pretty left quotes by single ticks. I think it was
Markus Kuhn who said so.
* float2vv: added conversion of float to visible v-string for
comparisons. Added some tests too.
* MD5_check_file: Now die instead of print when the MD5 checksum
mismatches.
* untar and unzip: preferring Archive::Tar now that it works
again. Adding extra security check by testing for absolute path
and updir.
* unzip_me: made it symmetrical to untar_me and added a few Signal
checkers to both.
* hosteasy/hard/hardest: now checking for $Signal and giving up in
several places within the download loop. Thanks for the suggestion
to Johan Vromans. I'd be ready to ask a question where to continue
but it turns out to need careful wording because the loop is
deeply nested: method, host, and within the methods LWP/Net::FTP
or lynx/ncftpget/ncftp. Simple wording might cause more grief than
just giving up.
* localize: now setting $ENV for proxies if config has values for
them. Thanks for the bugreport to Johan Vromans.
* checklock: changed comment in the code
2000-08-30 Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
* Applied 2 doc patches by Elaine and Jarkko.
* Call to force now wants a first argument and this was not there.
This was the reason why force DIST didn't work. Thanks to Jost
Krieger for the bugreport.