On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <a...@perl.org> wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:38, Andy Armstrong wrote: > >>> I like that solution better >> >> [snip] >> >> But solution to what? Are we convinced there's actually a problem here? > > CPAN has almost 200k files. www.cpan.org says there are "17627 modules". > rsyncing a gazillion files doesn't work that well (on the server). Helping > authors remember to delete things that are now irrelevant from the main CPAN > system will make it easier to run mirrors and keep them fresh.
I appreciate that the number of files on CPAN has implications for the infrastructure, but I feel a need to have some more factual info before conceding to such measures. Also, having _software_ determine what is 'irrelevant' is a dangerous path indeed. One of the strengths of CPAN is the low barrier of entry. If we lower the barrier of exit, I'm not at all convinced we end up in a significantly better place. /Lars
