[Catalyst] old versions of Catalyst on CPAN

[Sebastian Riedel]

Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> The question I have is why are you linking to Catalyst 3.00?

It's not.

> If there's 
> something you want to point to from another document (resume? blog?), then 
> perhaps you should just post it on your own website?  Then you can put it in 
> a "look at this code I wrote, it's interesting" context instead of "download 
> this, newbie!" context.

Because i don't want to break existing links and cpansearch just works, 
no need for me to reinvent that wheel.

> The CPAN is about community, so it's better to 
> respect the wishes of the community rather than your own personal tastes.
>   

If the CPAN community is so concerned about this, why is versioning 
still a feature?
As long as it's there i will make use of it.

> I personally consider having any version other than the latest available on 
> CPAN a bug.  I don't want to waste the mirror's space (these people are 
> mirroring CPAN for free; I want it to be easy for them), nor do I want to 
> confuse people looking for the version they should be starting with.

Maybe you should take a look at the cpan mirrors, quite a lot only keep 
the most recent versions anyway.

> Advanced users know to look for old versions on the backpan.

Backpan != CPAN-Search

> Readers of your 
> blog or whatever would appreciate that you just cite code in an inline 
> snippet rather than via a link to the CPAN.  Everyone wins. :

You don't know all my readers personally, do you?


P.S.: You didn't answer the question from my previous post, why should i 
nuke my cpan directory just because you made a naming mistake?


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sebastian