I believe there are, but are they documented anywhere? (if it's not documented, how can authors know)

BTW, i'd like to point out that PAUSE has a permission scheme when it comes to modules. PAUSE authors should check out View Permissions and Change Permissions. I'm not sure if demerphqs new upload will show up as the new version of MIME::Lite, given that the original author has not changed permissions (you can get demerphqs uploads here, but will they show up here).

MJD says you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo! I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6x+5.8x. I take requests. ** The Third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

Well there's some stuff in the CPAN FAQ.

How do I go about maintaining a module when the author is unresponsive?

But, to be honest, that doesn't quite say what I thought it would :)

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No they wont show up. The indexer has rejected them as not being owned by me.

I suppose all I can do is wait for either Eryq to send me a mail, or the modules people to say something.


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_{<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...}

I've taken a slighlty different approach with Net::Interface. I upload a tarball marked experimental (append /_\d/ to the version number in the name). This tells the indexer to ignore it, and yet many people find it, apparently via google.

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Personally I think that the community doesnt want to deal with this issue, as to deal with it properly a level of buerocracy needs to be implemented. And I think that the community tries to avoid buerocracy which is cool when things are small. But I think long term the undoing of CPAN will be this and related issues if it isnt confronted soon eventually.


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<Elian> And I do take a kind of perverse pleasure in having an OO assembly language...

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No im not predicitng the dath of CPAN, just that people trust of it is a function of how much they can rely on it. As more and more crud accumulates, and modules are left unsupported and unmaintained, the likelyhood of getting crap code gets higher and higher. Eventually there will be so much junk that no one will bother trying to figure out what to use, and just go elsewhere. But I think eventually is a long time. But id rather it didnt happen at all.

Film at eleven.

    -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos