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Id: 40770
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  Sat Nov 08 16:04:23 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Sort order wrong
The sort order on the page http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Module-Build.html seems to be wrong: the most recent version 0.30 is not on the top. Regards, Slaven
  Sun Nov 09 08:01:16 2008 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sat Nov 08 16:04:23 2008, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> The sort order on the page > http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Module-Build.html seems to be wrong: the > most recent version 0.30 is not on the top.
This is due to Module::Build odd numbering system. With Perl, versioning is considered to be a 3 digit number for each part. Thus '0.30' is actually considered to be '0.030.000', as such 0.2808 is adjusted to '0.280.008' which is after '0.030.000'. CPAN-WWW-Testers uses Sort::Versions, and this is the convention it follows. Until I have created a database of all of CPAN/BACKPAN with the correct release dates, then this is going to stay as is.
  Sun Nov 09 08:01:27 2008 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Nov 09 15:27:32 2008 slaven [...] rezic.de - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #40770] Sort order wrong
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:21:29 +0100
To: bug-CPAN-WWW-Testers [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Slaven Rezic <slaven [...] rezic.de>
"Barbie via RT" <bug-CPAN-WWW-Testers@rt.cpan.org> writes: Show quoted text
> <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40770 > > > On Sat Nov 08 16:04:23 2008, SREZIC wrote:
>> The sort order on the page >> http://www.cpantesters.org/show/Module-Build.html seems to be wrong: the >> most recent version 0.30 is not on the top.
> > This is due to Module::Build odd numbering system. With Perl, versioning > is considered to be a 3 digit number for each part. Thus '0.30' is > actually considered to be '0.030.000', as such 0.2808 is adjusted to > '0.280.008' which is after '0.030.000'.
The documentation of version.pm thinks that it's different: if there is only one dot, then always the numeric version is used, and if there are two or more dots, then the extended version is used. So in the Module-Build case normal floating number semantics could be used. Show quoted text
> CPAN-WWW-Testers uses Sort::Versions, and this is the convention it > follows. Until I have created a database of all of CPAN/BACKPAN with the > correct release dates, then this is going to stay as is.
In the CPAN Testers Matrix I simply use the comparison method provided by version.pm (that is, a slightly modified form of it), and I have the impression that the sorting in the matrix is more accurate than on the cpantesters pages. Regards, Slaven -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tksm - Perl/Tk program for searching and replacing in multiple files http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tksm
  Mon Jan 12 11:52:06 2009 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
This has now been resolved by using the new UPLOADS database, that has a complete record of CPAN (including BACKPAN and recent UPLOADS), and sorts based on the date/time of release.
  Mon Jan 12 11:52:09 2009 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'