On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:36 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > What he said. > > Most people don't mirror CPAN. They mirror many things. > > This is the same reason we've struggled with statistics. How do you > ask someone mirroring three dozen different things to put in a special > log-munging tool just for us.
By producing a tool that is compatible with rsync (or a fork, or a patch, whatever) that *also* does the extra stuff you want, and selling it as the bee's knees for mirror admins, so that they have a good reason to use it for all their mirroring needs instead of the unimproved rsync. "It slices, it dices, it makes julienne mirrors!" -'f
