>>>>> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:30:13 -0500, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> >>>>> said:
> 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. Agreed. Moreover: nothing was broken. No reason for any kind of re-upload at all. > Version numbers are difficult enough as it is without introducing more > complications! Indeed. >>> 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 for your words of confidence. CPAN is a distributed database of programming resources. We want to provide stability and reliability for the end user. We simply had to discourage spontaneous ideas on the provider side. -- andreas
