Bug #41206 for CPAN-Mini: [WISHLIST] Write a minimal RECENT file for the mirror

As discussed in #cpantesters-discuss IRC channel: [12:21] <@BinGOs> rjbs: ping. [12:52] < rjbs> hi [12:54] <@BinGOs> oh hai. [12:54] <@BinGOs> I was wondering how hard it would be to add something to CPAN::Mini [12:55] <@BinGOs> ( and by implication any subclasses like CPAN::Mini::Devel ) [12:55] <@BinGOs> Basically, make the trace() write a minimal RECENT file. [13:02] <@BinGOs> So RECENT file looks like: http://www.cpan.org/RECENT [13:03] <@BinGOs> So CPAN::Mini could generate that from the things it updates [21:47] < rjbs> BinGOs: probably doable This is mostly of use to CPAN Testers tools which query the RECENT file to determine which distributions to test. The tools parse the RECENT file and look for any strings which look like distributions: <sample> authors/id/A/AA/AALLAN/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AA/AAR/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AA/AAR/Net-Calais-1.02.meta authors/id/A/AA/AAR/Net-Calais-1.02.tar.gz authors/id/A/AA/AARDO/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AA/AARDO/Combine-3.12-0.meta authors/id/A/AA/AARDO/Combine-3.12-0.readme authors/id/A/AA/AARDO/Combine-3.12-0.tar.gz authors/id/A/AB/ABW/Badger-0.03_02.tar.gz authors/id/A/AB/ABW/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/YAML-Tiny-1.34_01.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/Abstract-Meta-Class-0.13.meta authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/Abstract-Meta-Class-0.13.readme authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/Abstract-Meta-Class-0.13.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/CHECKSUMS authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.09.meta authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.09.readme authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.09.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.10.meta authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.10.readme authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.10.tar.gz </sample> As parsed by the tools becomes: <parsed> authors/id/A/AA/AAR/Net-Calais-1.02.tar.gz authors/id/A/AA/AARDO/Combine-3.12-0.tar.gz authors/id/A/AB/ABW/Badger-0.03_02.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADAMK/YAML-Tiny-1.34_01.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/Abstract-Meta-Class-0.13.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.09.tar.gz authors/id/A/AD/ADRIANWIT/DBIx-Connection-0.10.tar.gz </parsed> Many thanks in advance, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================