Let me just mention this again: all we have to do to let the outdated
cpan clients know they are broken is to move/rename/reformat a few
files:
authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
modules/03modlist.data.gz
Of course, that's going to give a lot of people a bad day because the
CPAN client they have won't be able to upgrade[1]. And of course
there's probably more than just CPAN(PLUS).pm referencing those.
Maybe there's a better place to put the bullet, but I think we've talked
about compatibility long enough. Can we start seriously talking about
end-of-life'ing the broken stuff, make sure the new versions can
self-upgrade, and move on?
[1] Unless the indices are stripped-down to include *only* references to
the latest CPAN(PLUS) files? Or, maybe just freeze their contents at a
given moment?
--Eric
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