On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:14:46PM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:06:37PM +0100, Tim Bunce ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Or thrown away entirely, along with the rest of the the archaic idea of > > > a "module list." > > > > The Module List is dead. Module Registration is different. > > Mea culpa. I'll rephrase. > > "Or thrown away entirely, along with the rest of the archaic idea of > module registration."
:-) > The time has come to recognize that CPAN is an unregulated free-for-all, > and that the existing way of trying to wrap our heads around its > contents hasn't scaled and needs to go away. The good parts (knowing > who is authoritative for a module) need to get pulled out, and put into > a new system. I don't mind if the current system gets fixed (which could be done, per my previous emails) or something new gets implemented. Ultimately what matters most is that something gets done by someone. Personally I've done my time, all ten years of it, as a "please give your modules a sensible name" advocate. I'm letting others do that now, to whatever extent they want. Tim.
