Hi Cosimo, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Cosimo Streppone <cos...@opera.com> wrote: > On 04. feb. 2015 08:17, Michiel Beijen wrote: > >> Can anyone fill in on the feasibility of directing all cpan cients to >> *one* site, i.e. https://cpan.metacpan.org/ ? > > Having multiple mirrors is IMO one of the many things > that CPAN got right from the start. > > Other similar but centralized package repositories > have failed (and continue to fail) miserably. > Why go centralised if the problem is elsewhere? > > CDNs, while being distributed, are managed centrally > by one entity, who also pays the bandwidth/service cost.
Yeah of course, it should not be one **host** - but it can still be one URL which leverages a CDN right? Are you saying "CDN, bad, mirrors, good? I understand this might mean more bandwidth cost for the one who pays the bills - therefore I've asked about how we could find out about the amount of traffic that would be involved. If bandwidth would be much of a concern it could also be a possibility to get the checksums for the dists from one source via HTTPS, perform the download from a mirror and then verify the checksum. -- Michiel
