There's a good reason to delete old distributions if you happen to use RCS or CVS version numbers for your sub-modules.

In a nutshell: RCS (and thus CVS) version numbers sometimes go backwards from CPAN.pm's point of view. For example, RCS version 1.10 comes after 1.9. CPAN.pm tests versions numerically, so 1.10 comes before 1.9.

At last check, CPAN.pm doesn't resolve the deadlock between two versions of a distribution with "newer" sub-modules than the other. Rather, it considers each version of the distribution to be newer than the other. Hijinks ensue, as the link above shows.

-- Rocco Caputo

In reply to Re: CPAN authors, clean up your directories by rcaputo
in thread CPAN authors, clean up your directories by jmcnamara

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