Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-05-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Shawn, On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 20:06:10 -0400 Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 01 May 2015 09:02:08 +1000 Dean Hamstead d...@fragfest.com.au wrote: Emailing the authors of modules who's last release was 10+ years ago seems like a sensible first step. Especially if there

Automated old dist warnings, Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-05-01 Thread Matthew Astley
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 12:37:26AM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Neil Bowers neil.bow...@cogendo.com wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for

Re: Curating old dists on CPAN

2015-05-01 Thread John M Gamble
On 4/30/2015 5:10 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: I think we should either remove very old dists from CPAN, or update them to follow modern conventions (so they have a META.yml or META.json, for example). I had email with the author of CGI::Response (last released in 1995) for example, and he agreed