>>>>> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:34:18 -0800 (PST), Jeff Youngstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > On 17 Nov 2000, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: >> >>>>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:27:18 -0800 (PST), Jeff Youngstrom ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > I'm looking at this page: >> >> > http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/00modlist.long.html >> > When I click on the link to HTML::Simple which goes to: >> > http://search.cpan.org/search?module=HTML::Simple >> > That page reports "Module 'HTML::Simple' not found" >> > And yet this page: >> > http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/01modules.index.html >> > has a link directly to the Simple.pm file... >> >> > I is confused. >> >> Don't bother. HTML::Simple does not even hava a manpage, nor a README, >> nor a Makefile.PL. I believe, it was a preliminary study. Look >> >> -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 732 Oct 3 1995 >/home/ftp/pub/CPAN/authors/id/T/TO/TOMC/Simple.pm.gz >> >> 732 bytes written in 1995. Just move on. > That's what I concluded when I finally found it, but it sure > _sounded_ like just what I was looking for. Should it still > be in the module list? I'll leave that to you. I'm > satisfied. Great. Abandoning namespaces and files needs to be better supported for CPAN authors, then we can start pushing things off the various lists politely. Current state of affairs is, we keep any old stuff unless authors actively maintain remove something. If they do not have interest in a clean CPAN and just leave anything they have dumped into theyr directory behind, then there is no mechanism in place to clean up. This doesn't seem right to me, needs to be dealt with. Thanks for bringing up the question. -- andreas
