On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:22:45PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: > > You probably shouldn't ever delete *every* version of the old > module, because then people won't be able to find the migration > path.
Every module gets archived onto BackPAN when it is deleted from CPAN so it may be gone from the main archive but it's not completely gone. ftp://mirrors.valueclick.com/perl/backup.pause/ is one mirror of it. Authors could delete old cruft and point to BackPAN for those who wish to use older versions unavailable on CPAN. So, as long as the placeholder is there with a README or somesuch, it wouldn't cause too much of a problem. There have been a number of deprecated modules replaced by others over the years that have nearly always managed to annoy me since it's hard to keep track of them after a while. This is where metadata could be extremely useful. e.
