On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dana Hudes <dhu...@hudes.org> wrote: > But you can't use CPAN.pm on the Backpan. Can't you? It's just a mirror, so if you point CPAN.pm to the backpan, you should be able to install packages from there (though to get the version you want you'll need to specify the author/package name manually I think).
Of course, I've never done this myself, so I could be mistaken > > ------Original Message------ > From: Shlomi Fish > To: module-authors@perl.org > Cc: dhu...@hudes.org > Sent: Mar 28, 2010 11:31 AM > Subject: Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging" > > On Sunday 28 Mar 2010 17:28:48 dhu...@hudes.org wrote: >> The entire point of rsync is to send only changes. >> Therefore once your mirror initially syncs the old versions of modules is >> not the issue. Indeed, removing the old versions would present additional >> burden on synchronization! The ongoing burden is the ever-growing CPAN. >> >> The danger in a CPAN::Mini and in removing old versions is that one is >> assuming that the latest and greatest is the one to use. This is false. >> Take the case of someone running old software. I personally support >> systems still running Informix Dyanmic Server 7.31 as well as systems >> running the latest IDS 11.5 build. We have Perl code that talks to IDS. If >> DBD::Informix withdrew support for IDS 7.31 I would need both the last >> version that supported it as well as the current. I can get away with >> upgrading Perl, maybe, but to upgrade the dbms is much more problematic >> (license, for one thing; SQL changes another). > > You can always get the old versions from the Backpan, which keeps all > historical versions - so it's a non-issue. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang > > Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. > Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect
