[Bioperl-l] BioPerl.pm and 1.6.1

[Chris Fields]

All,

I've recently noticed that CPAN is not grabbing the correct  
descriptive information from Build.PL.  The current description is  
coming from Bio::LiveSeq::IO::BioPerl, which is the first module found  
with the same 'BioPerl' namesake:

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=bioperl&mode=dist

Therefore we need something that acts as the description and main page  
for the distributions.  We have a bioperl.pod already, just need to  
update it and add it to trunk, and maybe release another alpha with it  
included to make sure it's working.  I also want to fix the recent  
Windows issue reported by Kristine.

Therefore, I will being adding this for core and the other  
distributions per Curtis Jewell's suggestion (below).  Please let me  
know if there are any disagreements with this; I'll probably push  
another alpha out with this in the next few days (also hopefully  
containing the bug fix mentioned above).

chris

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Curtis Jewell" <lists.perl.module-authors at csjewell.fastmail.us>
> Date: September 23, 2009 12:32:49 PM CDT
> To: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu>
> Subject: Re: distribution description
>
> Chris, I'd make it a BioPerl.pm that just declares a package and  
> version
> and does nothing else other than being a holder for Pod - because the
> first thing I wanted to do when I heard about it and wanted to check
> whether it worked in Strawberry is to do 'cpan BioPerl', which of
> course, blows up.
>
> --Curtis
>
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:23 -0500, "Chris Fields"  
> <cjfields at illinois.edu>
> wrote:
>> I've noticed in the last number of CPAN releases of BioPerl that the
>> description for the distribution is being pulled from one of our
>> modules (Bio::LiveSeq::IO::BioPerl).  I'm guessing this is b/c it's
>> the first match to the distribution name.
>>
>> Is there any way to make sure the description is pulled from the
>> abstract?  We're using a subclass of Module::Build and have defined
>> dist_abstract (I'm thinking of adding a BioPerl.pod to the root
>> directory just to catch this).
>>
>> chris
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