Bill Ward wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bill Weinman<w...@bearnet.com> wrote:
On 2010-02-15 11:52 AM, Bill Ward wrote:
I think you probably should just delete it and re-upload it.
That would have been my inclination -- but apparently it takes three days
to delete a file and in the mean time it wouldn't let me upload the same
file to a different location.
What I've done in that case is to slightly rename the file... e.g. by
adding a letter 'a' to the version number. Sometimes I forget to update the
README or something.
Although that may have permitted you to do an immediate re-upload, I
would argue that that's not the best course of action. If I were
browsing CPAN for the purpose of selecting a module, I wouldn't
necessarily know how to interpret an 'a' in a version number.
Version numbers are difficult enough as it is without introducing more
complications!
The 3-day thing seems a little overly cautions - I'd rather have it be
"delete immediately" and maybe have a 3-day "undelete" option, personally.
But in the long run 3 days doesn't take that long to pass.
I'm sure that CPAN veterans could give you the full rationale. But the
three-day policy has been in place for at least as long as I've been
putting modules on CPAN (2002) and I've never had problems with it.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
