On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:17 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:
In September 2001, apparently all aglow in the excitement of all the
talk that was going on about testing and whatnot, I wrote a module
called CPAN::Test::Reporter.
(http://search.cpan.org/~skud/CPAN-Test-Reporter-0.02/) Looking at
it,
I have no idea what I was thinking or why I thought it was
necessary at
the time. The only hint is in the credits where I say that it's based
on the cpantest script by Kurt Starsinic. Presumably I thought it
would
be useful to have a modular version of it.
I'm pretty sure nobody uses it (CPANTS reports that it's not a
dependency for any other module). It looks like Test::Reporter is a
newer module that does what I was trying to do, and is more up to
date.
What I want to know is, should I just bin it? Or might it, in
fact, be
useful to someone somehow? Or is it just bad form to completely
delete
CPAN modules? I guess I could update it with a new version that says
"Don't use me."
K.
Were I you, I'd probably just post an annocpan and/or cpanratings
comment recommending an alternative. Uploading a new version would
probably be OK. However, that would alter the last upload date to
2007. I often use the date of last upload as a clue when searching
for CPAN modules. *Usually* the stuff updated in 2006/2007 is better
than the stuff from 2001.
Chris
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