Re: best practice for documentation-only distros

2017-11-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Darren, > I have a question concerning best practices for CPAN as they affect me. […] > > Due to various historical reasons I had until a few years ago considered CPAN > a good distribution mechanism for both Perl modules as well as standalone > documentation which didn't have any Perl code

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

2017-11-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Daniel, > Thanks for the heads up, and sorry for taking up too much space! I believe > I've scheduled the majority of my old artifacts for deletion from PAUSE. > > If that didn't work, or if we still need to delete more artifacts, you have > my permission to delete any of the artifacts that

Re: CPAN: tidying up your author directory

2017-11-02 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Duke, > Most likely, you can delete old Math::GSL distributions. Some are > needed, because they are tied to the version of GSL, but if you delete > the oldest first, maybe start with 25%, that should free up a lot of > space, and I don't think anybody uses those anymore. > > Math::GSL tarball