Hi, On Mon, 26.01.2009 at 22:58:41 +0100, Marc Espie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:10:49PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: > > ok, thank you. This is mentioned nowhere, however, and it's a lot less > > automatic than a CPAN-based download could be. > > But it does have other advantages that a CPAN-based download doesn't have, > like being a standard url scheme...
I'm sorry, but I don't understand. I was thinking along the lines of having to say only (something like) PERL_MODULE= DBI and the ports infrastructure would automatically figure out that this should be downloaded via http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.607.tar.gz which, in turn, would use their load balancing features to get the file from the nearest responding server. Or so I thought. I briefly looked into writing such a downloader module. If you say you don't like the whole idea and wouldn't accept it, I think I won't bother to look any further, though. -- Kind regards, --Toni++
