On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:14:45AM -0700, Ovid wrote: >> --- On Wed, 14/4/10, Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com> >>> >>>> Agreed, but you know you're going to see this and >>> variants thereof: >>>> >>>> requires: >>>> perl: 6,0 >>>> >>>> Should that be a rejection for unknown format? I would >>> think so. Better to fail early than have junk spread >>> throughout the CPAN. >>>> >>> >>> Just to confirm, you mean "refuse to index" not "refuse to >>> propagate >>> the file", right? >> >> To be honest, I'm not sure. Definitely don't index that, but if someone >> presents an invalid version, you could wind up with a lot of junk that might >> be hard to clean out. > > That would be a pretty policy significant change. Historically, so long as > your > tarball is well-formed, you can upload line-noise[1] to PAUSE and it will > propagate it.
propagate it yes, but not everything gets indexed. to get indexed you have to follow certain rules. for example if you leave the blib/ directory in your tarball it will not be indexed. > [1] Consequently, changing this would entirely break the ability to upload > Perl 4 code to the CPAN. nope. it just would not be indexed. but then perl4 code may not get indexed today either Graham.
