Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

Hi,

I think David is not alone here. As PAUSE has interfaces for users to
delete then it's possible to write
a cpanpurge utility to do it without changing PAUSE. Small yaml config
in home dir with protections
of particular files and interactive mode.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:52 PM, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 that appear to have been superseded?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
>



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Best regards, Ruslan.