On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 04:41:56AM -0700, Nick Tonkin wrote: > Where user BEWUETHER has uploaded four versions of a completely useless > dummy module, to "test" PAUSE functionality.
I suspect he's working through brian d foy's book which walks you through this process in order to learn how to use PAUSE. > Notwithstanding that he placed it in Acme:: ... I feel this is a compete > waste and abuse of an important public resource. CPAN being cluttered with > garbage is its one and only serious negative characteristic IMO. I'm more interested in people being able to learn how to upload things so they can contribute than I am in avoiding clutter. One person's garbage is another person's favourite utility module; much though the quality of CPAN is highly variable, attempting to forcibly curate it would I think cause more problems than it would solve. -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our CPAN commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
