Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories

[demerphq]

A slightly different problem is that a lot of CPAN stuff is old and unmaintained without being particularly useful, but occupying a namespace that means that newer better stuff has to be named stupid things.

Id really like to see a way that an unmaintained modules namespace somehow gets "released" to another more diligent maintainer, perhaps after onyl committing to maintian the present interface for some amount of time.

--- demerphq
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[John M. Dlugosz]

I suppose if there was Foo::Bar version 0.8 that's been gathering dust since 1994, and you really wanted that namespace Foo::Bar for yourself, you could simply release Foo::Bar 1.0 that happens to be totally different from the old 0.8.

[demerphq]

Thats possible?

I had for some reason assumed that things that like were prohibited.

Interesting idea, I guess i'd have to speak with the CPAN people to find out what the details of doing such a thing would be.

--- demerphq
my friends call me, usually because I'm late....

[John M. Dlugosz]

Let us know, would you?

Perhaps using a higher version number will be part of the process to "reclaim" a retired name space, as that keeps automated tools happy.