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Please, please, please, use module names. They are stable and reliable. Dist names are not. Dist names aren't even unique unless paired with uploader name (AUTHOR/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz), so how do you...
[naming] I suggest using **see also** -- this is softer than "recommended alternative" and could eventually be enhanced with comments or tagging. It would allow for "recommendation" or "alternative" or...
[naming] I think it's good to _start_ soft and general, because you can always make it harder with more specific annotations or tagging. On the other hand, if you try...
@monken "distributions" in the way you describe it don't exist as far as PAUSE is concerned. They don't exist as far as **users** are concerned because they can't be installed....
I'm actually curious what happens on RT if there's an identically named distribution. If I were more evil, I would upload Moose-3.000.tar.gz containing a legal, unindexed module (NotReallyMoose.pm) and see...
[naming] How about **Related Modules**? Not the "See Also" we're used to seeing; establishes that there is a relationship; but is generic to support future distinctions.
I think Matthew Horsfall was trying to write a canonical "index this tarball like PAUSE would" library at QAH2013, but I'm not sure if he ever finished. That would be...
There appear to be a number of places to attempt this. Currently, trying to make "perl" throws an error there rather than during prereq resolution. I just spot checked and...