On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 10:41:29PM -0800, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: > On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > You might want to record the type of repository, even if there's > > only "CPAN" for now. It might be worth differentiating "CPAN" from > > "BackPAN". > > The structure is the same, but one has some CPAN releases and the later as > > has all CPAN releases.
There's at least one other significant difference: CPAN has an up-to-date index. BackPAN doesn't. > Good point. CPAN, BackPAN, and DarkPAN are all specific types of > "repositories". So I need a name for that type. I guess "PAN" could be an > option. FWIW, there's at least two other types of repository: * MiniCPAN * cpXXXan MiniCPANs contain *only* what's in the index. cpXXXans have a restricted index but otherwise have all the content of a BackPAN. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david There's no problem so complex that it can't be solved by killing everyone even remotely associated with it
