On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:19, brian d foy wrote: >> I think I may have implemented what you're looking for several years >> ago for JSAN, which has a client that auto-detected appropriate >> mirrors in a few seconds each time it starts. >> >> http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Mirror-URI-0.90/lib/Mirror/YAML.pm > > I was looking at this, but it seems like the idea of downloading a > small file from several mirrors isn't a good way to figure out which > mirrors to use, especially with a large number of mirrors.
What's the goal here? "Faster" is sorta dumb, really. There are few files on CPAN that are significantly bigger that the checking for a "faster" mirror won't take longer than just getting the file from a slower mirror. If it's to find a good/up-to-date mirror, then there are a couple of json files available (on CPAN and the mirrors.cpan.org server). I'll talk to Henk about getting the mirrors.json file - http://www.cpan.org/indices/mirrors.json - to include a "is this mirror good?" flag of sorts. - ask
