But you can't use CPAN.pm on the Backpan.
------Original Message------
From: Shlomi Fish
To: module-authors@perl.org
Cc: dhu...@hudes.org
Sent: Mar 28, 2010 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
On Sunday 28 Mar 2010 17:28:48 dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
> The entire point of rsync is to send only changes.
> Therefore once your mirror initially syncs the old versions of modules is
> not the issue. Indeed, removing the old versions would present additional
> burden on synchronization! The ongoing burden is the ever-growing CPAN.
>
> The danger in a CPAN::Mini and in removing old versions is that one is
> assuming that the latest and greatest is the one to use. This is false.
> Take the case of someone running old software. I personally support
> systems still running Informix Dyanmic Server 7.31 as well as systems
> running the latest IDS 11.5 build. We have Perl code that talks to IDS. If
> DBD::Informix withdrew support for IDS 7.31 I would need both the last
> version that supported it as well as the current. I can get away with
> upgrading Perl, maybe, but to upgrade the dbms is much more problematic
> (license, for one thing; SQL changes another).
You can always get the old versions from the Backpan, which keeps all
historical versions - so it's a non-issue.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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