sawyer x wrote:
I don't understand why people upload things to CPAN that are specifically
exclusively without-a-doubt on-purpose *just
for them*?
Because it's convenient 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?
You can address this question to every Acme:: author. 95% of Acme:: modules aren't even useful, though no one complains
about this (usually).
CPAN is not our private repository. It's not our backyard shed, it's not our
personal storage. Why keep doing this?
I've never seen any description what CPAN is -- apart from the fact it's a collection of some Perl modules and scripts.
Some of them are not even free.
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.
Personally I try to not care about things that have no direct impact on me.
If someone wants to establish a CPAN Police Force, they can better do something with obviously malicious things like
this one: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-Index/
--
S.T.
