More pkgsrc hacking
The next round will start soon. I saw alot of perl modules which do need
updating and I started to think over various mechanisms to keep that
automated. My pkgsrc2cpan report is quite useful for this, however the
CPAN.pm module which is shipped with Perl 5.8.8 seems to be quite,
hm...feature aware. There are methods to get the version for a module
which is at CPAN, however it's mixing all the different version
arguments for Perl modules.
For example a module in version 0.000009 is the same as 0.0.9. By a
simple pattern match for comparison this method is likely to fail. There
a few more issues with that. A module can be updated on CPAN but it's
not noted inside the CPAN modlist files. Therefor querying the CPAN.pm
module gives you just a wrong answer. That's just annoying and I need to
find a workaround for this.
So far I am using my script for a quick overview and it's far better to
have such an option than to have nothing to look at. Maybe someone is so
thankful and write a new CPAN-ask-my-version module.
