Re: Obsolete, renamed modules?

2002-08-04 Thread Ken Williams
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 04:37 AM, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: On Jul 30, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: What is the policy with regards to obsolete modules on CPAN? I just realised there are several versions of modules that I uploaded to CPAN still available e.g. through search.CPAN.org,

Re: Obsolete, renamed modules?

2002-08-04 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 04:22 PM 8/4/02 +1000, Ken Williams wrote: What is the policy with regards to obsolete modules on CPAN? Would it make sense to upload a non-functioning, higher versioned dummy module? E.g. a threads::farm version 0.02, telling you to use Thread::Pool instead? I think it's dangerous to upload

Re: Obsolete, renamed modules?

2002-08-04 Thread Stas Bekman
Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 04:22 PM 8/4/02 +1000, Ken Williams wrote: What is the policy with regards to obsolete modules on CPAN? Would it make sense to upload a non-functioning, higher versioned dummy module? E.g. a threads::farm version 0.02, telling you to use Thread::Pool instead?