Bug #95196 for CPAN-Releases-Latest: Plugins for other release data sources

Wed Apr 30 04:01:32 2014 BARBIE [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Plugins for other release data sources

Hi Neil, I'd like to suggest you make this distribution more generic. The method '_get_release_info_from_metacpan()' could be extracted to a plugin (CPAN::Releases::Latest::MetaCPAN), and renamed to something like 'get_release_info()'. This would then enable other plugins to be written to extract the same or similar information from other sources. For example, I was planning on writing something similar from CPAN Testers, but there have been other sources in the past, and I expect there will be others in the future. It may also be useful to include a filter, that can use a list similar to the distroprefs and ignore certain releases. I originally wrote something similar for CPAN::YACSmoke (see my BACKPAN list [1]) to use my Outlook inbox, the original NNTP feed and various Weblists. I can see this being very useful as a more generic retrieval system for CPAN Testers. [1] http://backpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/B/BA/BARBIE/ Cheers, Barbie.

Wed Apr 30 05:59:04 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> I'd like to suggest you make this distribution more generic.

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> The method '_get_release_info_from_metacpan()' could be extracted to a > plugin (CPAN::Releases::Latest::MetaCPAN), and renamed to something > like 'get_release_info()'.

Off the cuff I'm thinking CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN, and when you create the latest: $latest = CPAN::Releases::Latest->new(source => 'Frobozz'); It would then look for CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::Frobozz Since all such modules would not be generic, but essentially plugins for this. I'll mull some more, but maybe this is today's release :-) Cheers, Neil

Wed Apr 30 05:59:05 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Apr 30 12:54:46 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

You might want to take a look at the approach taken in CPAN::Common::Index, which provides a common API over top of several backend implementations.

Wed Apr 30 13:14:20 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> You might want to take a look at the approach taken in > CPAN::Common::Index, which provides a common API over top of several > backend implementations.

On a quick skim of that code, it wasn't obvious to me, so I'll probably try something simpler. Cheers, Neil

Thu May 22 03:11:59 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

0.06 now has this plugin idea, and the dist comes with the default plugin to generate the index with MetaCPAN. Cheers, Neil

Thu May 22 03:12:00 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Thu May 22 03:12:00 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.06 added