I don't see any benefits for having an all-controlled CPAN site. What would be the point? And of course, currently it's now possible to upload buggy or trojaned modules. Remember that PAUSE/CPAN lets anyone upload anything. The only rule CPAN has that uploaded source code must be freely distributable. That's it. There's no "seal of quality" slapped on anything uploaded to CPAN.

Uploaded and distributing software over the internet is old. Older than Perl itself. Remember that perl1 was distributed in comp.sources, which was actively being archived.

Tell me, what would be the advantages of an all-controlling CPAN site?

Abigail

In reply to Re: Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI by Abigail-II
in thread Perl Monks += TMTOWTDI by hacker

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