On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 12:16:56AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > 1. I doubt the people whose systems depend upon those disappearing CPAN > distributions will find it to be fun. That's not a nice thing to do to > people, and it's going to create negative reactions for Perl, CPAN, and > FOSS.
If you depend on an old version of some distribution, then you really need to be doing more than just downloading that old version from the CPAN. You need to manage all of the rest of your dependencies too so that none of them sneak in an updated version while you're not looking. Jeffrey Thalhammer's Pinto tool was written for people like that. Or if you just don't want any modules after a particular point in time, or need the latest version that works on a particular perl, there's cpXXXan. > 2. The problem with CPAN isn't 10,000 files that need to be deleted. > The problem with CPAN is that it is a collection of programs of wildly > varying quality, style, and technique. This is the direct result of the > CPAN development model. What is needed is way to take the best results > of TIMTOWTDI and unify them into a coherent "programming systems > product" [1]. Has anyone seen an effective way to do this? What is needed is for people to stop thinking that they know what is needed. :-) The CPAN has done very nicely without any such schemes. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often. Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.
