Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (Ovid)
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--- On Thu, 25/3/10, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Golden <[email protected]> > 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.) I don't have a particular opinion about this, but this issue could be mitigated if CPAN linked to the backpan. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6