From Michael.Jacob@SCHERING.DE

Created by micaja@de.ibm.com

The online help of the CPAN shell has this entry​:

r NONE reinstall recommendations

I checked with multiple coworkers and all of them (including
me) misunderstood this as a command installing something.
It should be made clear this command only checks version.
Maybe​:

r NONE version check installed modules

or

r NONE list updatable modules

or

r NONE recommend module updates

Flags:
    category=utilities
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by Gerrit at Fri Aug 29 11:53:54 CEST 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
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unknown unknown cygwin '
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-Doptimize=-O3 -Dman3ext=3pm'
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    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef
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  Dynamic Linking:
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    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:



@INC for perl v5.8.0:
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    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
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    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
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From @schwern

[Michael.Jacob@​SCHERING.DE - Thu Oct 23 06​:01​:05 2003]​:
The online help of the CPAN shell has this entry​:

r NONE reinstall recommendations

I checked with multiple coworkers and all of them (including
me) misunderstood this as a command installing something.
It should be made clear this command only checks version.

You're right, that's not very clear.

I went with "updatable modules" even though that loses the "r" mnemonic.
"reinstallable modules" just didn't seem to properly describe "listing
the modules which have newer versions than you have installed".

Also fixed a grammar nit in the "i" docs.

From @schwern

--- lib/CPAN.pm	2005/07/12 06:27:48	1.4
+++ lib/CPAN.pm	2005/07/12 06:29:38
@@ -1387,8 +1387,8 @@
 Display Information
  command  argument          description
  a,b,d,m  WORD or /REGEXP/  about authors, bundles, distributions, modules
- i        WORD or /REGEXP/  about anything of above
- r        NONE              reinstall recommendations
+ i        WORD or /REGEXP/  about any of the above
+ r        NONE              updatable modules
  ls       AUTHOR            about files in the author's directory
 
 Download, Test, Make, Install...

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @steve-m-hay

Michael G Schwern via RT wrote​:

[Michael.Jacob@​SCHERING.DE - Thu Oct 23 06​:01​:05 2003]​:
The online help of the CPAN shell has this entry​:

r NONE reinstall recommendations

I checked with multiple coworkers and all of them (including
me) misunderstood this as a command installing something.
It should be made clear this command only checks version.

You're right, that's not very clear.

I went with "updatable modules" even though that loses the "r" mnemonic.
"reinstallable modules" just didn't seem to properly describe "listing
the modules which have newer versions than you have installed".

Also fixed a grammar nit in the "i" docs.

Thanks. Applied as change 25132.

I changed it to "report updatable modules" to retain the "r" mnemonic.

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From @steve-m-hay

Now fixed in bleadperl so should be in 5.8.8, otherwise in 5.10.

@steve-m-hay - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

From @schwern

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09​:19​:14AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote​:

You're right, that's not very clear.

I went with "updatable modules" even though that loses the "r" mnemonic.
"reinstallable modules" just didn't seem to properly describe "listing
the modules which have newer versions than you have installed".

Also fixed a grammar nit in the "i" docs.

Thanks. Applied as change 25132.

I changed it to "report updatable modules" to retain the "r" mnemonic.

That's a pretty lousy mnemonic as they all "report" something. Also none
of the other descriptions mention that they "report" or "display". This
is assumed from the header "Display Information".

Better to drop the mnemonic than use a misleading or vague one.

--
Michael G Schwern schwern@​pobox.com http​://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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