On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 11:29:25PM -0800, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (_brian_d_foy) writes: > > > > My impulse is to regularly update the modules on CPAN, at least until we > > > get a semi-functional beta in place. But I'm apprehensive that using > > > CPAN like CVS might annoy some of the maintainers. :) > > > > You can mark distributions as developer releases, upload > > as appropriate, and delete distributions when you don't need > > them any more. :) > > Of course you can't Really Really delete a module, so it'll still take > up bits in a few places. > > (currently there's about twice as much on "backpan" as on CPAN -- > either we are growing tons or people should delete stuff more often :-) )
I suspect some authors forget about purging because there's nothing to remind them about it (I know I'm guilty of that). Some authors might not be aware of purging at all. When an author uploads to PAUSE (or clicks the button to take ownership of a previous ftp upload) PAUSE currently returns them to the same page with with some words added to the top about how to track progress. If, instead, it took them to the Delete Modules page[1] (with the same words added to the top) it would act as a clear reminder that uploads should be balanced by purging of old versions. Tim. [1] Or whatever it's called. It's not responding to me at the moment so I can't check.
