Bug #12101 for POE: Test::Harness is being indexed as part of POE

Thu Mar 31 16:08:52 2005 Guest - Ticket created

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Test::Harness is being indexed as part of POE

It appears that Test::Harness is being indexed, because search.cpan.org showed me POE when I was looking for Test::Harness. I may be misinterpreting the result though.

Mon Apr 11 22:39:02 2005 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

[guest - Thu Mar 31 16:08:52 2005]: Show quoted text

> It appears that Test::Harness is being indexed, because > search.cpan.org showed me POE when I was looking for Test::Harness. I > may be misinterpreting the result though.

I have no idea why this happens. META.yml doesn't list Test::Harness in its "provides" section. I've also placed it in the mylib directory of the tarball which should be off limits to the CPAN indexer. So... I've added Test::Harness as a prerequisite to POE. Maybe that will force the indexer to think it's an outside entity. I'm surprised ExtUtils::AutoInstall is not similarly listed. Hmm... I just checked. It is listed under POE (and many many other distributions). Maybe this is an issue with search.cpan.org?

Fri Sep 30 12:41:42 2005 adamk [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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[RCAPUTO - Mon Apr 11 22:39:02 2005]: Show quoted text

> [guest - Thu Mar 31 16:08:52 2005]: >

> > It appears that Test::Harness is being indexed, because > > search.cpan.org showed me POE when I was looking for Test::Harness.

> I

> > may be misinterpreting the result though.

> > I have no idea why this happens. META.yml doesn't list Test::Harness > in > its "provides" section. I've also placed it in the mylib directory of > the tarball which should be off limits to the CPAN indexer. > > So... I've added Test::Harness as a prerequisite to POE. Maybe that > will force the indexer to think it's an outside entity. I'm surprised > ExtUtils::AutoInstall is not similarly listed. > > Hmm... I just checked. It is listed under POE (and many many other > distributions). Maybe this is an issue with search.cpan.org?

Nope, not it's fault. There's nothing that says that mylib is special that I know of. If you have any directories that contain Perl things you want everything to ignore, you need to be adding no_index entries to the META.yml file. Everything should ignore whatever you don't want them to see. Including Test::Harness. So, add a no_index entry for mylib, and this problem will do away

Tue Mar 28 00:12:11 2006 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

no_index: dir: - mylib generated_by: Module::Build version 0.2709 As of revision 1910. Thanks for poking me about this.

Tue Mar 28 00:12:12 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Tue Mar 28 00:12:13 2006 RCAPUTO [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'