On 04/23/2014 08:42 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote:
In case you are not reading blogs.perl.org,
brian d foy just sent out the regular spring cleaning call:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/04/lets-delete-10000-files-from-cpan.html
"We're a month into spring and some of the world just celebrated
Earth Day, so it's time for the thousands of PAUSE authors to each
delete one old distribution ..."
"...not because there's any danger of running out of space, but
because it's fun to delete things and see them disappear."
1. I doubt the people whose systems depend upon those disappearing CPAN
distributions will find it to be fun. That's not a nice thing to do to
people, and it's going to create negative reactions for Perl, CPAN, and
FOSS.
2. The problem with CPAN isn't 10,000 files that need to be deleted.
The problem with CPAN is that it is a collection of programs of wildly
varying quality, style, and technique. This is the direct result of the
CPAN development model. What is needed is way to take the best results
of TIMTOWTDI and unify them into a coherent "programming systems
product" [1]. Has anyone seen an effective way to do this?
David
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
