CPAN Spring cleaning needed

[Discipulus]

Hello monks,

CPAN is a house for many of us and we are in charge to keep it cleen.

See the original request: http://neilb.org/2021/05/10/delete-your-old-releases.html

L*

[Bod]

My development releases have now been scheduled for deletion...not that they will make a huge difference in the big scheme of thing but every little helps I guess...

Thanks for sharing.

[Tux]

In the Netherlands we have "Alle kleine beetjes helpen." (all small bits add up to the larger goal). I removed 4.4 Mb.

I keep the last one and the one before to enable to diff option in metacpan.

Thanks for pushing it to PM. I also got this on IRC.

[no longer just digit]

You can do diffs with backpan versions on metacpan:

https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=BKB/Image-SVG-Path-0.36/lib%2FImage%2FSVG%2FPath.pod&source=BKB%2FImage-SVG-Path-0.35%2Flib%2FImage%2FSVG%2FPath.pod

You can also do diffs between different backpan versions:

https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=BKB/Image-SVG-Path-0.02/&source=BKB%2FImage-SVG-Path-0.01

[perlancar]

I did some totaling of numbers in CPAN/BackPAN indices so you can get a better picture.

[VinsWorldcom]

I make it a habit to delete the previous release when I upload a new one. All of my releases have the latest and at most one older version - the rest are on BackPAN.

Cheers.

[reisinge]

done, thanks