On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:47:09AM -0500, Ken Williams wrote: > > I agree. There are plenty of modules on CPAN that people still find > useful even though they haven't had recent development on them. It's > much better to inform people of known/serious bugs in modules, than to > try to guess at the author's intentions WRT the module.
I think MJD expressed this best at YAPC when he became very animated in one of his '12 views' LT, ranting about how someone accused him of neglecting his Text::Template module when, as he said, it was mature, perfect. He blames this update mentality on Microsoft. > I believe our challenge is not to enforce some kind of standards on > CPAN, but to make sure that people can efficiently find the most > appropriate tools for their needs. I think the search.cpan.org > redesign was really a *huge* leap forward for that, and I'd like to see > similar efforts continue in that direction. Well, you know, CPAN and BackPAN /are/ archives...there are a lot of crap books in every library that noone reads much but will occasionally get sent out on loan :) They don't eat much space and, aside from ones parked on a good namespace with clear neglect, they're mostly not worth the stress of getting fussy over. On the other end of the spectrum is Acme::Current which noone seems to be making noise about. It is a commons...choose your battles wisely or you'll be mired in battle for a long time to come. e.
