Hi Shlomi, bdfoy normally on previous occasions made a call for a sort of CPAN spring cleaning:
- http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/28444 I myself have responded on previous occasions: - http://use.perl.org/~jonasbn/journal/28503 Read the comments on the two posts, they are making some good points. I will look into cleaning my uploads - have nice spring :-) jonasbn On 23/03/2010, at 10.14, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all, > > Lately, I've been thinking that there are many modules on CPAN with old > versions still present there (and not only on the BackPAN) - often by > previous > authors. For example, look at: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Curses-UI/ > > It still has Curses-UI-0.71 from February 2002, and many other previous > versions. All of this takes space on the CPAN , takes time to mirror and > download, and clutters the various interfaces like search.cpan.org. > > So I've been thinking that maybe we should trim the CPAN and remove older > versions like that so it will contain much less cruft. What do you think? > > Other modules as examples: > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Error/ (0.13, 0.14, 0.15) > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Find-Object/ (0.0.1, 0.0.2) > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/ (down to 5.800) > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang > > Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. > Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
