On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:29:39AM +0000, Chris Ball wrote: > 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. :(
It's all too easy even if you are the author: http://search.cpan.org/src/MJD/Memoize-1.01/Makefile.PL -- Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
