>> On 27 Nov 2002 11:09:35, Jonathan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

   > Well, the real problem is that CPAN doesn't allow more than one
   > version of any given module

Sure it does.  http://search.cpan.org/author/ABW/Apache-Template-0.06/
has a listbox of older releases that you can choose to download.

   > (which is silly).

There are a couple of things (not allowing a release to be deleted and
re-uploaded, not allowing another maintainer to take over a namespace)
that seem silly, but are security features.  It would be all too easy to
upload a CPAN module that just ran `rm -rf /` in the test portion of its
Makefile.  :(

- Chris.
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