Re: MetaCPAN info...

2015-02-05 Thread Michiel Beijen
Leo, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: We use http://www.fastly.com/ as our CDN (they are amazing) and we get this for free - always likely to: http://www.fastly.com/about/open-source/ ... From last month, daily averages served from Fastly... 65% hit

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-04 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi Cosimo, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Cosimo Streppone cos...@opera.com wrote: On 04. feb. 2015 08:17, Michiel Beijen wrote: Can anyone fill in on the feasibility of directing all cpan cients to *one* site, i.e. https://cpan.metacpan.org/ ? Having multiple mirrors is IMO one

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-04 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi David, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: Having a zillion mirrors is no longer a killer feature - the net is now much better connected, bandwidth is cheap, and site reliability is much higher than it used to be. However, the ability to easily

Re: HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-03 Thread Michiel Beijen
/ ? -- Michiel Op woensdag 4 februari 2015 heeft Mike Doherty m...@mikedoherty.ca het volgende geschreven: Doesn't cpan know how to use curl or wget if the system has it installed? Probably easier to bootstrap TLS support in perl that way. -Mike On Feb 3, 2015 2:26 PM, Michiel Beijen michiel.bei

HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity

2015-02-03 Thread Michiel Beijen
Hi, This Saturday at FOSDEM in the hallway I had some discussions with leont, Tux and later also with .. oh I guess that was RJBS? I did not introduce myself, very bad. Hi! Basically I think the whole CPAN setup with 200+ mirrors sounded great back in the 1990s and it is still widely touted as a