Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Graphics::PLplot (fwd)

[email protected] (Doug Hunt) Wed, 4 May 2011 13:36:57 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss,perl.module-authors
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi perl module authors list:

I've been having trouble for some time getting two of my modules (listed in the 
subject line) to be downloadable via the cpan shell.

I think it is a problem with getting the version number properly indexed. With 
PDL::NetCDF in particular, I've tried several things.  I've put a
META.yml in the top level directory, with these line is it:

provides:
     PDL::NetCDF:
         file:     netcdf.pd
         version:  4.1

indicating the current version which is 4.10.  Yet under the CPAN shell on my 
linux box, I get this:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
cpan[2]> get PDL::NetCDF
Running get for module 'PDL::NetCDF'

   The module PDL::NetCDF isn't available on CPAN.

   Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
   temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
   more about the status. Try 'i PDL::NetCDF'.

cpan[2]> i /PDL::NetCDF/

Module id = PDL::NetCDF
     DESCRIPTION  Reads/Writes NetCDF files from/to PDL objs
     CPAN_USERID  DHUNT (Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>)
     CPAN_VERSION undef
     CPAN_FILE    Contact Author Douglas Hunt <[email protected]>
     DSLIP_STATUS RdcOp (released,developer,C,object-oriented,Standard-Perl)
     MANPAGE      PDL::NetCDF - Object-oriented interface between NetCDF files 
and PDL objects. Perl extension to allow interface to NetCDF portable binary 
gridded files via PDL objects.
     INST_FILE /ops/tools/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux/PDL/NetCDF.pm
     INST_VERSION 4.04
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

When I upload PDL::NetCDF to PAUSE, I get a helpful email back indicating that 
it had been successfully indexed (an example is attached).

Could someone please help me get these two modules to be downloadable via the 
cpan shell?  Any pointers or hints much appreciated!

Regards,

   Doug Hunt

[email protected]
Software Engineer
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
PDL::NetCDF.pauseindex (text/plain, 1.1 KB)
From [email protected] Wed Apr 20 16:58:14 2011
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:58:11 +0200
From: PAUSE <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: PAUSE indexer report DHUNT/PDL-NetCDF-4.09.tar.gz

The following report has been written by the PAUSE namespace indexer.
Please contact [email protected] if there are any open questions.
  Id

               User: DHUNT (Douglas Hunt)
  Distribution file: PDL-NetCDF-4.09.tar.gz
    Number of files: 13
         *.pm files: 0
             README: PDL-NetCDF-4.09/README
           META.yml: PDL-NetCDF-4.09/META.yml
        YAML-Parser: YAML::XS 0.32
  META-driven index: yes
  Timestamp of file: Wed Apr 20 22:56:37 2011 UTC
   Time of this run: Wed Apr 20 22:58:11 2011 UTC

Status of this distro: OK
=========================

The following packages (grouped by status) have been found in the distro:

Status: Successfully indexed
============================

     module: PDL::NetCDF
    version: 4.09
    in file: netcdf.pd
     status: indexed

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