Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-30 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Dana, I've mostly ignored all this but I will step in briefly. I am the author of a few modules on CPAN. None of them are major. [...] I most vehemently resent anyone deciding that my contributions are not worth keeping around. [...] What if one day the CGI::Untaint::Test module gets

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-11-30 Thread Linda W
dhu...@hudes.org wrote: I've mostly ignored all this but I will step in briefly. I am the author of a few modules on CPAN. None of them are major. The dependency of one on another module which has been broken for years means that I get frequent e-mail that it fails its tests. There's nothing

Re: The CPAN Morass

2011-11-30 Thread Fields, Christopher J
I'm really not sure I understand your problem, it seems as if you are arguing in circles. I think the responses pretty adequately covered everything. CPAN's strength is it's simplicity: as someone (Eric?) said earlier, CPAN is just a collection of files. You are free to use (or not use) the