On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:53PM +0300, Burak Gürsoy wrote: > > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce > > Subject: Distributing the CPAN > > > * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. > > > * Over time the number of cpan-git-mirror's and cpan-git-server's could > > grow and the number of traditional CPAN ftp/rsync mirrors could fall. > > There is a part missing in this scenario. Mirroring gitPAN can be a > good idea since it has the actual released distros [...]
Yes, I was envisaging something like gitPAN. Though if this took off then moving the tarball->git import logic to the PAUSE server would probably be a good idea. Tim.
