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 re
Hi Cosimo,
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Cosimo Streppone 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
On 04. feb. 2015 10:36, Michiel Beijen wrote:
> Hi Cosimo,
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Cosimo Streppone 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/ ?
>
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 conn
Hi David,
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM, David Cantrell 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 st
Hi There,
Somehow images and files get corrupted when i read them with a perl
script and then download them with a modperl script using File::Read or
File::Slurp. The images are not really broken but they get blurred and
dont look the same like before they are uploaded. When i download them
d
Hi,
In regard to the 'HTTPS, CPAN, and dist integrity' thread.
I work on the metacpan project... FYI:
We use http://www.fastly.com/ as our CDN (they are amazing) and we
get this for free - always likely to: http://www.fastly.com/about/open-source/
MetaCPAN gets lots of support from companies,
h
