Hi David, On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> 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. I'm not saying that all mirrors should go, and I'm not saying that you should not be able to insert your own servers (or file locations) in your urllist! That's a useful feature and should absolutely stay. What I'm saying is that I think the *default* out-of-box setup should go use some central SSL-enabled website - which now, on latest CPAN, uses http://www.cpan.org by default. -- Michiel
