Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (Andy Armstrong)
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On 27 Mar 2010, at 00:59, Elaine Ashton wrote: > The only snag I can forsee in trimming back on the abundance of modules is the case where some modules have version requirements for other modules where it will barf with a mismatch/newer version of the required module (I bumped into this recently but can't remember exactly which module it was) but I think it's rare and the practise should be discouraged. Maybe that could be solved by having the clients (and maybe search.cpan.org) automagically fall back to a backpan mirror? And, yes, if it's considered a good idea I /am/ prepared to do something about it. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten