On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, sawyer x <xsawy...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't understand why people upload things to CPAN that are specifically > exclusively without-a-doubt on-purpose just for them? > > People always say "hey, if it's useful for even one person, it should be out > there", but these are things that are on purpose only useful and meant for > the author. Why upload them? CPAN is not our private repository. It's not > our backyard shed, it's not our personal storage. Why keep doing this? > > I seriously don't understand it, and I think people should stop doing it. I > personally have my personal stuff either on my personal Git repository or on > my Github repository. It's my stuff. I try to upload stuff to CPAN that can > (might) be useful for others too, hopefully.
I can see the use of having a Task::BeLike::ME distribution, so that whenever you need to set up an account in a new environment a simple «cpanm Task::BeLike::ME» will do the trick. It's not like such distributions really put much weight on the infrastructure. Leon
