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In Lancaster, Andreas clarified that PAUSE/CPAN is more in the model of Dropbox. Authors get a directory and can upload and organize what they wish. The "control" is over the...

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, andk [email protected] wrote: > A bit of a misunderstanding. CPAN is focused on perl, and not arbitrary > like dropbox; it never...

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer < [email protected]> wrote: > Saying that the index is the quality control mechanism feels > unsatisfactory to me. The...

To clarify, here are some cases to consider: - Two authorized authors uploading Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz with different .pm content but both with $VERSION=1.23. (Assume it contains Foo::Bar and both authors have...

I'd be careful about that -- many people do that intentionally, I think. E.g Foo-Bar-1.23 contains Foo::Bar at 1.23 and Foo::Baz at 1.23. Bar.pm gets modified and bumped to 1.24,...

Now that distribution names are linked to module name permissions anyway, what if x_authority just copied the permissions from the module name matching the distribution name to any new modules...

I suppose it's closer to "pull" but maybe it needs to be more like this: ``` pinto pull --from cpanfile ``` The arguments to pull are modules/distributions so there should...

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Joseph Crotty [email protected]: > Should/could pinto auto detect a cpanfile in PINTO_REPOSITORY_ROOT as > opposed to --from? > > No -- separate...

I'm not sure why this is important, nor do I think at least the first part is realistic. We (meaning I) don't screen out companies. Many people register names and...

> Given that the idea doesn't fly with you, maybe the immediate solution to improve the adoption list is to send a list of deceased authors to [email protected], and request...