Salve J Nilsen wrote:
Anyhow, I think being able to recreate the entire distribiution may be a good thing, but perhaps not necessarily from a CPAN-distributed tarball. I'd certainly expect that from a source repository checkout, though.
CPAN-distributed tarballs are the primary source of the source code, any tests that the author feels should be run as part of release testing or automated testing should be included in the CPAN distribution.
Repositories have this nasty habit of being private, out of date, on servers that die, not a version control you like, not a product you can legally use, or are not used at all by the author.
From the point of view of continuity, only the CPAN exists. There are repositories.
Adam K
