Hi,
It is important to mention that CPAN is put to use by other things
than the CPAN shell and search.cpan.org such as the FreeBSD port system.
So at least a few last versions should be always be available via CPAN.
Ref: http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/28503
jonasbn
On 12/01/2007, at 17.07, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 12 Jan 2007, at 15:55, Chris wrote:
So... what does the A in CPAN stand for again?
Hang on... It's on the tip of my tongue...
I'm not sure how easy it would be to track #3, because people
could be
downloading the modules from other sites, or in different packaged
formats. And I don't understand what the benefit of removing a
module would
be just because it isn't deemed to be immediately useful.
Noise reduction / cage cleaning basically.
Everything gets archived in backpan anyway - and I'm not
necessarily proposing removing things from CPAN - but if we could
add some metadata about whether a module was actively supported
that alone might be useful for people.
And actually I'm not really proposing anything concrete - just
trying to work out how we collectively feel on this topic.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
