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Id: 5023
Status: resolved
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Queue: Bryar
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Requestors: rjbs [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 2.3
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  Sun Jan 25 13:42:59 2004 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: recent entries aren't recent
It seems that the "recent" config option is for limiting the number of /recent/ entries shown on the main page when no other parameters are given. The Collector's collect_current method passes "recent" as the "limit" to the DataSource's search method. The base DataSource search method (which, I know, is not advertised to be awesome) finds all matching documents (which, for the main page, is everything) and returns the first "recent" number of them. Since the documents are unordered when this is done, it is not guaranteed that the returned documents are the most recent documents. I fixed this in my own toy collector/source by sorting all_documents before mapping the search, and then not afterwards.
  Sat May 01 07:14:35 2004 simon [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'
  Sat May 01 07:14:35 2004 simon [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
[RJBS - Sun Jan 25 13:42:59 2004]: Show quoted text
> The base DataSource search method (which, I know, is not advertised to > be awesome) finds all matching documents (which, for the main page, > is everything) and returns the first "recent" number of them. > Since the documents are unordered when this is done, it is not > guaranteed that the returned documents are the most recent > documents.
I've fixed this in CVS, but you probably don't want to be using the base search method anyway.