On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:22:52 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis
pagalt...@gmx.de said:
It’s gonna be a lot of work to iron out the entire tool chain to
support the newer formats; then it will take a lot of time until
the work trickles out far enough that people could start relying
on it.
* Andreas J. Koenig andreas.koenig.7os6v...@franz.ak.mind.de [2010-11-22
09:20]:
Agreed, but since bzip2 support is already done we can welcome
it when people actually use it.
I am unwilling to encourage it but I won’t argue if someone wants
to use it. And it can be a win for distributions
On 19/11/2010 20:57, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
source code, even 100KLOC? Once you go to .gz you're already at better
than 2:1. What are you going to save by going to even 3:1, 10Kbytes?
compared to the nuisance inflicted, it's nothing.
Over the entire CPAN archive, it'd be significant...
I
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgren da...@landgren.net wrote:
Yeah, this is the killer. In an ideal world, we would kill the symlinks such
as authors/id/*, modules/by-category/*, modules/by-module/* and so on. These
could be recreated via shell scripts locally on mirrors for people
