On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, at 19:30, Robert Spier wrote: > Would you consider, instead of pushing them to CPAN, posting them to GitHub > using the releases functionality?
Robert, I have considered it, and I think the short answer is, "It's worth considering." It will break some amount of downstream tooling, like CPAN::Perl::Releases and, downstream of that, `plenv install`. That makes me sort of reluctant to jump in with both feet. It doesn't seem like a terrible idea or anything, just not something I feel like is an obvious win. On the other hand, quite possibly pruning old dev releases aggressively and allowing them to be plucked from backpan is probably quite simple, and I suspect we can do this to older releases without requiring ever releaser to take individual action. Would this be much of a help? To test how well the tools will work when the release is only on backpan, I have boldly deleted 5.11.4 via PAUSE. I'll check back on this in a week. -- rjbs
