Hi Jesse, > Thanks so much for working to clean this stuff up. Everything should move to > BPS. > > I believe we're in a similar situation with GnuPg-Interface, which should, > ideally, also all be indexed under BPS.
Thanks — I’ve transferred permissions from JESSE to BPS where there were permissions split between those two accounts. I'm ok with old releases going away, but have always appreciated having the history around. PAUSE really can't cope with having the historical uploads around? The trouble with keeping old releases in your author directory is if package names are changed, then the old names can stay in the index against an older release. And theoretically someone could try to install that old module, and accidentally downgrade a distribution, or install an old version. All releases ever done to CPAN are always available via BackPAN, and you install from BackPAN with cpanm. So overall it’s safer for everyone, but particularly for less experienced developers, to keep your author directories tidy. For most distributions people are only ever likely to install via the lead module, but there are some with multiple public facing modules, where people could shoot themselves in the foot. Cheers, Neil
