Re^2: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell

Technically, you're right of course. But CPAN.pm is not your average run-of-the-mill Perl module. It's a central piece of our infrastructure, and almost everyone^* working with Perl uses it. I think we're entitled to place higher demands on it.

^*BOCTAOE. But the Vanilla Perl efforts will come to the rescue of our Windows friends too ;)

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Re^3: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 12, 2006 at 22:00 UTC
Perl being a community effort, we all share the responsability if something is not the way we like it. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^4: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell by rhesa (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2006 at 22:26 UTC
Absolutely. And getting the public worked up over such an important item is a great way to get the masses into motion :) I took the time to go over the open tickets in CPAN.pm's RT queue: Allow CPAN.pm to detect bad/old mirrors is on there, with the promise of a fix cpan install $module added last week, with a patch Module::Signature warning appears even when no gpg is present contains a patch (this doesn't fix the bigger issues mentioned by the OP) There's more at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CPAN. The community process seems to be working well enough. Not always as fast as we'd like, but impatience is in our nature, right? :)	[reply]