>>>>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:43:38 -0800, milki <mi...@rescomp.berkeley.edu> >>>>> said:
> Hi, > As a FreeBSD port maintainer, its nice to have > /modules/by-module/MODULE-VERSION.tar.gz available. However, recently I > have discovered that the it hasn't been updated for the ones I'm > interested in. Hear, hear. I did not expect that anybody was seriously using it. > For example, DBIx-Class is at version 0.08127. > ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/DBIx/ only contains up to > 0.08124 posted at 12/22/10. > Is the indexing broken? PAUSE still has the directory maintained but ftp.perl.org is not mirroring it. Maybe the mirroring there can be restarted, I'm not in the position to check that. We are tending to remove the whole directory because it's an insane way of maintaining information. The canonical way of indexing takes place in .../CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz But if people rely on the symlink tree, maybe we should keep it up. The two directories by-modules and by-category contain 240000 symlinks and diretories. Compared to the 1 MB of the 02packages.details.txt.gz file it's a monstrosity. Opinions welcome. -- andreas
