Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen) Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:10:47 -0700

Newsgroups	perl.cpan.workers,perl.module-authors
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On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:12, Tim Bunce 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 that appear to have been superseded?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 like it.

I agree with Jarkko that there should be a way to "pin" some versions and the configuration should be "more than N newer releases" or some such.

I think it should be on by default though.  Older than 3 (or 6?) months and at least 2 or 3 (or more?) newer releases or some such.

For most authors this won't change anything -- but it'll help those who unhelpfully _never_ delete anything.

On Search CPAN maybe BackPAN could be used to pull in older versions for diffs etc...

  - ask