In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Johan Vromans wrote: > >> But from what I hear, I'm on my own -- > > Not completely. > > The cpancd[1] package has the functionality in it to find out the latest > > version of a series of versions. Although the package is obsolete > > (CPAN won't fit on a CD anymore), this function could be useful. > But CPAN might fit on a couple of CD's or a DVD. CPAN is around 3 Gb total, which is up from about 2 Gb a year (or so) ago. The rate of uploads is also increasing, so pretty soon a DVD will even be too small :) Authors should just get rid of old distros. They'll always be in the BackPAN. -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
