On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > Does PAUSE ever forget about a file entirely? This implies not: > > http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#upload > > For security reasons you will never be able to upload a file with > identical name again.
You can't upload the same *tarball*, but that's not what I suggested. > I really wish that versions and dependencies were expressed at the distro > level rather than the module/package level. Allowing multiple version numbers > within an atomic unit of installation doesn't make sense. I agree. Now all we need is a DeLorean, a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawatts. > I agree that the best way to handle things to derive a single version number > which is at least `max(@versions) + $n` and use that for all modules. It > might look a little weird, but oh well -- it's justified from an engineering > standpoint. At least unifying the version numbers produces a sane outcome, > albeit at the expense of violating DRY. I outline the concept of a well-formed distribution here: http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/308/packages-modules-and-distributions/ I would go further and say that I recommend that whenever possible, all modules in a distribution should have the same version number, to avoid the sort of distro/module version sync problems that people have experienced. -- David
