On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 11:25:26PM +0100, Michiel Beijen wrote:
> Basically I think the whole CPAN setup with 200+ mirrors sounded great
> back in the 1990s and it is still widely touted as a feature of CPAN.
Having a zillion mirrors is no longer a killer feature - the net is now
much better connected, bandwidth is cheap, and site reliability is much
higher than it used to be. However, the ability to easily create a
mirror is still a nifty feature. It makes it dead easy to:
* have a mirror on my laptop for hacking on the move;
* have a customised module repository where all the normal tools "just
work"
The latter is really important. It lets companies add their non-public
code to a CPAN mirror-a-like. It lets you "pin" some of your
dependencies to particular versions. It lets you do things like the
cpXXXan.
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