Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
> Currently on PAUSE you have to explicitly delete old uploads.
>
> How about changing it so you have to explicitly KEEP old uploads
> that appear to have been superseded?

I would support an option to purge automatically only if the default
is NOT to purge.

I don't think it's a good idea to make it hard for people to find
older versions of a distribution -- where hard means "have to track it
down on backpan".  (Though we could make clients better about it, I
supposed.)

Of all the things  I'd  like to do with PAUSE, this feature is very,
very low on my list.

-- David