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CPANPLUS creates bundles that look like

=head1 CONTENTS

Acme::DeepThoughts 0.01

Acme::MJD 0.02

Algorithm::Diff 1.15
[download]

although it will also just install the newest version. The reason is there is no way to reliably correlate module version numbers with distributions. 02packages.details.txt.gz has the data (accessible using Parse::CPAN::Packages), but once a package is deleted from CPAN, its not listed in 02packages.details.txt.gz anymore.

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In reply to Re: CPAN Shell, Bundles and downloading specific versions by PodMaster
in thread CPAN Shell, Bundles and downloading specific versions by skazat

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