Can't find SVN::Core?

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Wed May 23 21:47:45 BST 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 20:14 +0100, Andrew Black wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
> 
> > I'm quite in favour of it not being on CPAN - PerlMagick -is- on CPAN but
> > the version on CPAN is fundamentally useless and you have to build the one
> > out your ImageMagick tarball anyway. At least with svn this fact is clear.
> 
> I would agree that it is best to have one version that is know to be 
> useful (and works with your version of svn, ImageMagick or whatever).
> 
> But people do expect to find modules on CPAN.  Is there any way the CPAN 
>   could provide a pointer to say go to wherever to find the module. Not 
> being a CPAN expert no idea how sensible or feasible this is.

CPAN will tell you something similar to this if the module is in the
modules list and is not actually on CPAN - see for instance SVN::Diff

/J\


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