As part of a periodic analysis of CPAN's resources, it was identified that
Perl dev releases are taking up a large chunk of disk space on the CPAN
master server.
For the purpose of the analysis, it's files that match:
/perl-5\.\d?[13579]\./
Right now these files, which have a very limited audienc
> Robert, has anybody talked with you if and how RT could work for
> managing module namespace requests? You probably know how the process
> currently is structured:
The idea comes up periodically, and I mention it to someone about
every six months, but it is always shot down, usually with some
c
>I submit that the CPAN index should prefer the independent tarball
>version of a module over the perl distribution *even if it is of an
>older version*.
Schwern's logic [snipped] makes sens to me. This seems like a good
idea.
It will get rid of a lot of the CPAN.pm complaints - from those pe
