On May 23, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:
> Historically, CPAN mirrors have always been static files. In other words,
> the paths in the 02packages file always pointed directly to some physical
> file on disk. This made it possible to access mirrors the with the older
> ftp:// a
On May 20, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:
> I'm not attempting to build an all-encompasing dependency management system.
> I've tried to avoid thinking about it in terms of CPAN as we know it, since
> in theory, that is an implementation detail. But in practice, I'm will
> stipu
After looking at David Wheeler's PGXN and David Cantrell's CPAN snapshots, I've
come up with a story. Tell me if you think this makes sense (or not):
Historically, CPAN mirrors have always been static files. In other words, the
paths in the 02packages file always pointed directly to some physi
