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Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

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From:
Adam Kennedy
Date:
March 25, 2010 21:36
Subject:
Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
Message ID:
255d58531003252136xbea3977t52ec2e8f176d0a1a@mail.gmail.com
What he said.

Most people don't mirror CPAN. They mirror many things.

This is the same reason we've struggled with statistics. How do you
ask someone mirroring three dozen different things to put in a special
log-munging tool just for us.

Adam K

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@perl.org> wrote:
> Most CPAN mirrors use rsync.  It's not realistic to make them change that ("Hello all mirror operators -- so that tool that you use for ALL YOUR MIRRORS; well ... maybe you can use something else for us?").

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