Hi, I think David is not alone here. As PAUSE has interfaces for users to delete then it's possible to write a cpanpurge utility to do it without changing PAUSE. Small yaml config in home dir with protections of particular files and interactive mode.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote: >> Currently on PAUSE you have to explicitly delete old uploads. >> >> How about changing it so you have to explicitly KEEP old uploads >> that appear to have been superseded? > > I would support an option to purge automatically only if the default > is NOT to purge. > > I don't think it's a good idea to make it hard for people to find > older versions of a distribution -- where hard means "have to track it > down on backpan". (Though we could make clients better about it, I > supposed.) > > Of all the things I'd like to do with PAUSE, this feature is very, > very low on my list. > > -- David > -- Best regards, Ruslan.
