Hi Neil,
Thank you for continuing to maintain PAUSE. I also prefer to keep
history around, but if the historical releases have to go to make way
for better things, please feel free to mark them for deletion on my behalf.
This email thread is like a little mini BPS reunion. ;-)
Thomas
On 8/23/20 2:16 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
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
