Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-06-10 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iain Truskett) wrote: The only thing I would want to avoid is pulling over something if you have it already deleting older packages as new ones come along. The former, it does. The latter, it doesn't. Can I blame the way that nobody

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-06-10 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Scott R. Godin wrote: I too had a hard time believing how some of the internal versioning is done. crazy regex and substr reductions of long version strings instead of a simple package::VERSION = nn.nn.nn; *bemused headscratching* I'm sure a good percentage of that is

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-05-26 Thread Jay Lawrence
On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it. For a mere

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-05-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:06:06AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Jay Lawrence
Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it. I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on a CD ... but I am certain that there is some stuff in there

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Iain Truskett
* Jay Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26 May 2002 01:12]: Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it. I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on a

Re: howto mirror subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it. For a mere $20, with profits going to YAS? I