On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:57 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
> Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync between
> mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat
> on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the
> mirror d
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:57 -0800, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
> Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync
> between
> mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat
> on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the
> mirror d
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:53:12PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> here is a report on compressing Graph-Easy-0.70.tar with various
> compression methods:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 416916 Nov 14 22:23 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar.gz
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 329197 Nov 5 12:24 Graph-Easy-0.70
>> source code, even 100KLOC? Once you go to .gz you're already at better
>> than 2:1. What are you going to save by going to even 3:1, 10Kbytes?
>> compared to the nuisance inflicted, it's nothing.
>
> Over the entire CPAN archive, it'd be significant...
>
> I agree on the individual case it's pro
On Fri, November 19, 2010 2:18 pm, dhu...@hudes.org wrote:
> The savings for going to .bz2 over .gz for source code are fairly
> insignificant. We're talking about source code for a perl module. Is
> your stuff tens of megabytes in size? That's a lot of code if so. I could
> understand if you we
The savings for going to .bz2 over .gz for source code are fairly
insignificant. We're talking about source code for a perl module. Is
your stuff tens of megabytes in size? That's a lot of code if so. I could
understand if you were distributing a sizable database with your code but
source code, e
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 1. Will the CPAN testing and downloading toolchian will handle modules
> uploaded as .tar.bz2? (Allow to install them, unpack them, etc.) How
> about tar.xz.
.bz2, yes. .xz, possibly, but not reliably. CPANPLUS uses
Archive::Extract, which
Hi all,
here is a report on compressing Graph-Easy-0.70.tar with various
compression methods:
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shlomif:~/progs/perl/cpan/Graph/Easy/trunk/Graph-Easy/TEMP$ ls -l
total 3420
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 2160640 Nov 14 22:20 Graph-Easy-0.70.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 shlomif shlomif 329197 Nov 5 12:24 Gr
