Re: Ports list - is it being maintained?

[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig)) Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:18:51 +0100

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>>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:43:44 -0500, David Golden <[email protected]> said:

  > That raises a broader question.
  > Who maintains all of the non tarball content on CPAN and what is the
  > process for getting it changed?

The original idea was that we have files on cpan in the authors tree
that have a fixed name and can be overwritten by the owner. Then other
cpan content could link to these files with relative links. It did not
work out well. It seems that once somebody owns a file it becomes a
burdon to maintain it. Not really surprising. We probably need other
models for that.

-- 
andreas