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 of the many things
that CPAN got right from the start.
Other similar but centralized package
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 of the
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
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:25:26PM +0100, Michiel Beijen wrote:
Basically I think the whole CPAN setup with 200+ mirrors sounded great
back in the 1990s and it is still widely touted as a feature of CPAN.
Having a zillion mirrors is no longer a killer feature - the net is now
much better
On 04. feb. 2015 10:36, Michiel Beijen wrote:
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/
Absolutely correct! I forgot about that; it is used for perl 5.14 where
there is no HTTP::Tiny or LWP in core. And yes, this would be the best way
to go about this I think.
Can anyone fill in on the feasibility of directing all cpan cients to *one*
site, i.e. https://cpan.metacpan.org/ ?
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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
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...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
This Saturday at FOSDEM in the hallway I had some discussions with
leont, Tux
