Maybe there's been a discussion here and I've missed it. I'm not sure if I'm meditating or seeking wisdom on this one but ...

What exactly is the point of Acme::Current?

On a superficial level I guess I can answer that myself: it returns today's date - for some loose definition of 'today' that doesn't fit with my timezone and is unlikely to be compatible with your CPAN mirror's sync schedule.

On a deeper level, I'm still struggling to see the point. It's not unknown in these hallowed halls for people to be accused of wasting space on CPAN but surely setting up a cron job to upload a new version of a module every day is doing exactly that?

Ahh here's a theory ... some script kiddie has hacked merlyn's PAUSE account and is taunting him daily.

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Re: Acme::Current?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 16, 2003 at 10:15 UTC
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Re: Acme::Current?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2003 at 10:39 UTC
    I suggest merlyn also automate scheduling old copies for deletion, otherwise this will be uncool (yes, ACME:: is for fun and games, but this is just plain stupid), and if the maintainers of cpan complain, well then he should definetly cease and desist (I've got a sense of humor, but there is no perpetual joke which is still funny).

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Re: Acme::Current?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 16, 2003 at 10:45 UTC

    I find the idea and concept a bit funny, maybe because I know such solutions from daily production life. I already mentioned Acme::SoftwareUpdate as an interesting addition to this module, and using that module demonstrates quite well the problem of vendor lock-in. Other than that, I hope the update will be stopped in a week or two, because the joke is already old to those who know it.

    perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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Re: Acme::Current?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 16, 2003 at 23:06 UTC

    I am flabbergasted over the fact that Acme::Current is merlyn's only module on CPAN.

    BTW, XML::Simpler was much funnier, IMHO.

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      I'm not, dig a little deeper, you'll find that there are tonnes of the core developers and multiple (as in 10+) major module authors who get little to no credit while supposed "big names" are highly praised all around.

      Randal has done lots of good work (and probably a lot more I don't know of) but there are many who have contributed equally (or more) who you wouldn't recognize at all.

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Re: Acme::Current?
by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 20, 2015 at 08:58 UTC

    It seems xkcd has taken the idea of this module, and calls it PermaCal.

    Incidentally, has there ever been a version of that module that you don't have to download every day, but you still have to rebuild and reinstall every day, because the date is hard-coded into the module at build time? That would preserve some of the joke of the module without "wasting space on CPAN".

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