On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > It still has Curses-UI-0.71 from February 2002, and many other previous > versions. All of this takes space on the CPAN , takes time to mirror and > download, and clutters the various interfaces like search.cpan.org. > > So I've been thinking that maybe we should trim the CPAN and remove older > versions like that so it will contain much less cruft. What do you think?
Who is complaining about space? Anyone who wants just the latest distributions can already get just that with CPAN::Mini. Mirror time is a one-time cost and only for someone hosting a full mirror. I don't see why shaving some time off that first-time rsync is a big deal. Clutter on search.cpan.org is inside a drop-down box. That's not clutter. Other than fastidiousness, I don't see the big deal. -- David
