Re: getting rid of some unmaintained modules

2004-05-27 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Christopher Hicks wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote: I believe even if you delete them all from your directory, everything ever uploaded is still available on 'backpan': Actually I have just noticed that link on the home page of every author on search cpan

Re: getting rid of some unmaintained modules

2004-05-10 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Mark Stosberg wrote: I believe even if you delete them all from your directory, everything ever uploaded is still available on 'backpan': It may still be available, but it's still much less likely that a random Perl programmer will dig something out of backpan as compared

getting rid of some unmaintained modules

2004-05-07 Thread Gabor Szabo
I have released 3 modules to CPAN earlier, when I thought it is fun to have some modules up there. Actually they don't do much there so I'd like to get rid of them. Two of them have never really worked so I can safely assume no one uses them. I think I can just delete all of their copies from

Re: getting rid of some unmaintained modules

2004-05-07 Thread Sherzod Ruzmetov
is using your code, some poor geek out there might be playing with it, and another one will even try to hack it into something better/useful. - Original Message - From: Gabor Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:00 PM Subject: getting rid of some

Re: getting rid of some unmaintained modules

2004-05-07 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sherzod Ruzmetov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of removing any modules, edit the docs of the library stating the modules are obsolete, unfinished, broken etc. If there are any other modules that you know of to be used as an alternative, list them, but keep the