I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to
follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example).
I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for
example, and he agreed that it should be removed from CPAN.
I had a look at all the dists that were last released in 1995 and wrote up my
thoughts on them:
http://neilb.org/2015/04/30/curating-old-releases.html
<http://neilb.org/2015/04/30/curating-old-releases.html>
Where people think dists shouldn’t be removed, I’m happy to try adopt them to
release minimal updates, where I’m able to.
I’m interested to hear what others think.
Neil
