On Tue, January 8, 2013 12:14 pm, Olaf Alders wrote: > > On 2013-01-08, at 1:03 PM, David Nicol wrote: > >> ...
> >> >> On the other hand, a comprehensive "CPAN by git" as an additional CPAN >> feature would have a measure of awesome to it, as an alternate >> distribution and synchronization method. I don't know what that means. What would this hypothetically entail? > > Well, there is GitPAN, but it needs a lot of love > https://github.com/gitpan Just to nip a possible misunderstanding in the bud, as far as I can tell the purpose of gitpan was to help CPAN authors who were not on github get on github, by starting their own accounts and forking their modules from gitpan (which I did, by the way. Thank you, Schwern). It was not intended as a constantly synchronized central repository of all of CPAN. So if you need a leg up on getting your modules over to a version control system, gitpan is a very useful starting point. -john
