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Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment

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Date 2024-07-22 20:35 +0100
Subject Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment
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From david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell)

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On 16/07/2024 08:58, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:

> During that Toolchain Summit, there were also discussions of per-version
> indices for CPAN, so that the CPAN clients could use an index tailored
> for specific versions of Perl if the user wants them to. That way, those
> who decide to live in the past don't have to be such a burden on those
> living in the present and looking at the future. Sadly, little progress
> has been made on this since.

I used to run one of these!

I abandoned it several years ago because nigh-on all the traffic was 
bots trying to index it. I handed over maintenance to someone else, but 
it seems that Real Life got in the way. Anyway, all the code is still 
available at https://github.com/MorayJ/cpXXXan.

-- 
David Cantrell

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Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment eagle@eyrie.org (Russ Allbery) - 2024-07-15 19:30 -0700
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    Re: Guidance on the implications of the Lyon Amendment david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell) - 2024-07-22 20:35 +0100

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