On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Ricardo Signes <perl...@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote: > We have a tool to do this, at work. It isn't really in a state that I'd > suggest others use it, but I would love to see something better than it become > popular, as it has been *very* useful. So, I will be happy to help, at least > by telling you what we learned. > > https://github.com/pobox/xpan
I remember you telling me a bit about it and I'll check it out again. Frankly, I'm less concerned about constructing indices as that's a relatively easily iterated problem. The big hurdle I want to bridge is to get regular old cpan(plus|m) using a new form of index that maps packages to URLs (possibly URI::cpan::distfile) allowing any of these as targets for fulfilling a request for a package: * cpan:///distfile/AUTHOR/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz (e.g. a default CPAN repo) * cpan://backpan.perl.org/AUTHOR/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz (e.g. alternate repo) * http://dev.example.com/Foo-Bar-1.23.tar.gz (e.g. internal tarball repo) The point is that all we really need is "package -> tarball location" map and if we teach CPAN clients to work from that, then we just need to play around with index CRUD tools for PAUSE and private use. -- David
