Aristotle Pagaltzis writes: > * Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-13 04:15]: > > > I really, really, really don't want PAUSE modifying my stuff after > > it's uploaded. > > Count me in this camp.
That's my instinct as well. > I do think that PAUSE could fix this, but it *MUST* require author > consent. Given how few instances of this have been counted, is it worth the effort for this, rather than just rejecting problems? > (Needless to mention, once the toolchain is appropriately patched, the > won’t-index mail should also include the hint that if on Windows, one > might want to upgrade one’s toolchain to avoid having to deal with > this hassle.) Nah, this is Windows -- Pause should just use a rootkit to gain access to the developer's computer and upgrade the toolchain for him ... > > Until now CPAN has been a common carrier. Pretty much anything was > > allowed, stuff was only rejected for extreme reasons and always on a > > case-by-case basis and always by human judgment. > > The filtering does not change this. It doesn’t cause the upload to be > rejected. Also I believe that even proper legal-entity common carriers are permitted to reject certain classes of things. The Wikipedia page mentions postal services declining to tranport money; Royal Mail also refuses aerosols, batteries, counterfeit currency, dry ice, obscene publications, foreign lottery tickets ... Rejecting certain undesirable uploads meeting well-defined criteria is a long way from modifying stuff in other people's names. Smylers
