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Ask Bjørn Hansen
Date:
November 27, 2010 10:00
Subject:
Re: Reducing rsync cost
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20101127180005.10943.qmail@lists-nntp.develooper.com
On 11/24/10 1:23, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> The symlink tree is built by scripts, isn't it? Are they available?

Actually; since earlier this year it's not being built anymore.  I 
promised to write a note announcing it but haven't gotten around to it.

So inadvertently we got to test if anyone cared.  The answer is no.  :-)

Nobody is navigating the CPAN via FTP anymore, so they serve ~no useful 
purpose.

The longer term plan is to get rid of first all the symlink files 
(although they should get pruned as the files the links point to are 
removed) and eventually the directories (in some number of years).

I imagine it might be useful to put in index.html and README files in 
each directory with a relevant pointer to 
http://search.cpan.org/search?q=$foo - but I don't have time to rig that up.



  - ask

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