Hi! On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 03:30:06PM -0600, Randy J. Ray wrote: > I asked this once before, but rather than getting an answer, someone just > "did it". There are some modules that I've deleted completely from CPAN; one > was because I renamed the top-level of the namespace (per conversation with > Adam Kennedy), and the other because someone else has a much better module > for the task (I've dropped Devel::Coverage in favor of using and maybe one > day contributing to Devel::Cover). > > Should there be a clearer way for module authors to communicate this? Does > CPANTS recognize when modules disappear? Until some months ago CPANTS had a bug (caused by bugs in the tools used..) that prevented some dists from beeing deleted.
In your case (Devel::Coverage) the reason was that there was no new CPANTS run since you deleted the dist from CPAN. I did a new run, and now it's gone... > Over the last few months, CPANTS has been a great resource for me in finding > shortcomings in my distributions. Test suites and CPAN testers do their > parts, and CPANTS helps keep the bundling sane. Nice to hear :-) -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}
