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On 28 Mar 2010, at 19:32, Elaine Ashton wrote: > Jarkko and I were talking about it this morning - as he's not in favour of pruning - while trying to think of a way around the size problem and he reminded me of the idea that, if I recall correctly was Adreas' suggestion a while back, there be an A, B and C 'PAN' of sorts where you could pull varying degrees of content - sort of CPAN:Mini writ large. I don't think that idea ever got any traction because it wouldn't really solve some of the issues for the major upstream mirrors and the mechanics of deciding where to draw the lines between them. I still think it's a good idea though. We're nearly there if A == a CPAN::Mini style mirror, B == the current mirror pruned and C == backpan. So the actions to make that happen are: * give the current clients specific support for this * generate a master mini mirror that other mini mirrors can pull from. * prune If we agree that this is a good solution I'm happy to do some work on it - I could host the mini master and I'd be happy to send Andreas a patch for CPAN.pm to support this scheme. -- Andy Armstrong, HextenThread Previous | Thread Next