--- On Thu, 25/3/10, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Golden xda...@gmail.com
I don't think it's a good idea to make it hard for people
to find
older versions of a distribution -- where hard means have
to track it
down on backpan. (Though we could make clients
better
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:12:32AM +, Tim Bunce wrote:
Currently on PAUSE you have to explicitly delete old uploads.
Which often is a good thing. While BACKPAN exists, it isn't somewhere
that many go to look for old distributions. For me and probably others,
BACKPAN only distributions are
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Barbie wrote:
Lastly I would also personnally be annoyed if only the latest versions
were available, as I often make great use of the diff tool on
search.cpan.org. Having only the latest version renders that great tool
redundant :(
I use that too :-) and it is
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:42:58PM +, Barbie wrote:
There are many distributions on CPAN that older versions work on a
particular perl/os, but more recent ones don't. Latest isn't necessarily
the greatest.
If you are going to perform this then it should really feed off the CPAN
Testers
What Jarkko said.
On Mar 25, 2010, at 08:00, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
I have one case where the v1 and v2 of a module are simply
incompatible, but v1 still works, and unless the users have a
compelling reason, they won't migrate. Pulling the rug from under
them would be quite
On 25 Mar 2010, at 15:36, Chris Nandor wrote:
I like that solution better
[snip]
But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem here?
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:38, Andy Armstrong wrote:
I like that solution better
[snip]
But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem here?
CPAN has almost 200k files. www.cpan.org says there are 17627 modules.
rsyncing a gazillion files doesn't work that well (on the
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:38, Andy Armstrong wrote:
I like that solution better
[snip]
But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem here?
CPAN has almost 200k files. www.cpan.org says there are 17627 modules.
rsyncing a gazillion files doesn't work
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:08:45PM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
Forgive a lurker, but wasn't that the point of this:
http://search.cpan.org/~andk/File-Rsync-Mirror-Recent-0.0.7/
When I saw that announced, I remember thinking Yay, large archive rsync
problem solved! Did it not
On Mar 25, 2010, at 13:23, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
Maybe CPAN mirrors are more easily updated than via a generic rsync? Is
the burden only network/cpu for checking whether a bunch of old
archives have changed, or does disk matter?
Most CPAN mirrors use rsync. It's not realistic to make them
What he said.
Most people don't mirror CPAN. They mirror many things.
This is the same reason we've struggled with statistics. How do you
ask someone mirroring three dozen different things to put in a special
log-munging tool just for us.
Adam K
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