> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:51 PM > To: cpan-workers; module-authors@perl.org > Subject: Distributing the CPAN
> * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. > > * Over time the number of cpan-git-mirror's and cpan-git-server's could > grow and the number of traditional CPAN ftp/rsync mirrors could fall. There is a part missing in this scenario. Mirroring gitPAN can be a good idea since it has the actual released distros but mirroring a random repo (or somehow combining random repos and creating a single one) is not logical IMHO since many people use builder builders and a repo may not necessarily contain a complete installable configuration where the tar.gz archives (or "releases") have a complete set of files.
