On 02/08/2014 06:15 AM, Neil Bowers wrote:
Just to close the loop...
[...]
When I previously adopted one of Sean's dists I was told he'd retired. This
time I noticed that he wasn't listed in the permissions for the dist, so
assumed[*] that the same applied for this dist. And then my email to the PAUSE
admins got spam blocked, as often happens. So I impatiently[**] emailed Ron
directly. Apologies to Sean and Ron; lesson learned.
No problem at all.
(Simple answer to "Retired?" is "Well, emeritus"-- in the nebulous US
sense of the word, which can mean "gave most of his hard jobs to other
people; and is perennially working on his translation of the Ginza Rba
into Thai", just as well as it could mean "Last I heard, he was an
arms dealer in Thailand, but somebody said they've seen him at the
Tommyburger in Burbank." MORE ON THAT LATER.)
My question for the moment, for anyone, but notably modules@perl.org, is:
Can I delete (some) old items from here...?
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/
And: How?-- Is it just a matter of jumping into PAUSE and deleting
them from my home PAUSE directory and then things are automatic?
And: would this be a bad idea in some notable way?
(I figure if anyone's interest in keeping those around would be just
historical interest, then if someone *wants* a particular old version
of something, they're much better off going to http://backpan.perl.org/ )
I bring this up because most (not all) of those links are to things
that are, at best, uninteresting-- they're not-latest releases of
things. (In many cases, *very* not-latest.)
Example:
Follow the link to Class::ISA (0.33) ...
http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Class-ISA-0.33/
and you'll see the whole detail page for that module... with just one
little note saying that the most recent release isn't this 0.33, it's
0.36, click here to go elsewhere.
Ditto my (equals old) versions of Pod::Simple,... HTML-Tree,...
Test.pm,... and other stuff that's just clutter. Clutter, just
distracting crufty clutter.
I'm not talking about deleting active stuff-- I mean *only* stuff, in
my dir, that other people have released newer versions of. Like the
above-mentioned.
(As opposed to IO::Null (for example) whose latest release was by me,
therefore it stays.)
