Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-18 Thread Andy Lester
I propose eliminating the Long Module List. I'm talking about http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html (2998 modules), not http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html (6800 modules). =over 4 =item * It's no longer relevant. Way back when, it was cool to have a single readable

Re: Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-18 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:54:32PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I propose eliminating the Long Module List. I'm talking about http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html (2998 modules), not http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html (6800 modules). As a long time CPAN module author and

Re: Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-18 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote: I made a suggestion regarding this before that I thought provided a fair solution http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2615, but no one commented. Basically, upon submission of a new module, a notice would be auto-posted to some list. If

Re: Let's eliminate the Module List

2004-08-18 Thread Lincoln A. Baxter
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 17:57, Mark Stosberg wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 04:54:32PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I propose eliminating the Long Module List. I'm talking about http://www.cpan.org/modules/00modlist.long.html (2998 modules), not http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html