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From:
David Cantrell
Date:
March 25, 2010 07:13
Subject:
Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
Message ID:
20100325141308.GK27109@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:42:58PM +0000, Barbie wrote:

> There are many distributions on CPAN that older versions work on a
> particular perl/os, but more recent ones don't. Latest isn't necessarily
> the greatest. 
>
> If you are going to perform this then it should really feed off the CPAN
> Testers to know if a specific release has been marked as being the
> latest working release for a particular perl/os.

You just described cpXXXan: http://cpxxxan.barnyard.co.uk/

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David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

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      teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
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