On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
We wait your implementation breathlessly. By the time all the CPAN mirrors
have started using that, we probably will be rather blue in
the face.
Now, let's not be that way. :-) You need to pick your problem domain. You
guys can try to go through a lot of machinations to establish storage
policies which account for the million corner cases necessary to support all
the various versions of libraries & perl, and are relatively painless to
implement without raising the ire of all the contributors.... or just
improve the efficiency of synchronizing the mirrors.
<G> I know what sounds a hell of a lot easier and faster to me... *Really*
fast for anyone familiar with the PAUSE code base.
Rsync by itself is definitely a bad idea for the number of files, I agree
whole-heartedly. But it's the weakest and simplest link to replace.
Would I be happy to help? Sure. But I don't feel like diving into a
foreign code base all by myself? No. I don't have that many spare cycles.
--Arthur Corliss
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