On Apr 1, 2010, at 16:50, Tim Bunce wrote: > * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in > years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files > means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only > the diffs between releases.)
The bandwidth isn't an issue -- the disk IO is. Maybe there'd be less disk IO with git if all of CPAN was in one big repository; but there are many good reasons for it not to be. If we had a repository per distribution we're back to square one; more or less. - ask
