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Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

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Ask Bjørn Hansen
Date:
March 25, 2010 08:11
Subject:
Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
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BD4B832C-7AF6-4C8D-A5D3-6045B810EFD4@perl.org

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 that appear to have been superseded?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...


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