On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 04:49:44PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Tim Bunce [2010-04-02 15:55]:
> > So, for a cpan-git-mirror to update itself it only needs to do:
> >
> > cd cpan-all && git pull && git submodule update
> >
> > The git pull of cpan-all repro would be very fast as it's t
On Apr 2, 2010, at 14:03, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Imagine a cpan-all 'superproject' repro that has all the distros as
> submodules. This repro would be tiny when cloned because it only
> contains empty directories for the distos plus the metadata for where
> the upstream distro repro lives and what t
* Tim Bunce [2010-04-02 15:55]:
> So, for a cpan-git-mirror to update itself it only needs to do:
>
> cd cpan-all && git pull && git submodule update
>
> The git pull of cpan-all repro would be very fast as it's tiny.
With 15,000(?) distributions = submodules = directories, it’s not
*that* ti
On Apr 1, 2010, at 16:50, Tim Bunce wrote:
> * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in
> years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files
> means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only
> the diffs between releases.)
T
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:16:58AM +0200, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>
> On Apr 1, 2010, at 16:50, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> > * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in
> > years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files
> > means there'll be much le
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in
>> years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files
>> means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only
>> the diffs betw
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:03:53PM +0300, Burak Gürsoy wrote:
> > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce
> > Subject: Distributing the CPAN
>
> > * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo.
>
> > * Over time the number of cpan-git-mirror's and cpan-git-se
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:39:27AM -0400, David Nicol wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
>> > The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution.
>>
>> so don't. How much reengineering would be nee
On Apr 1, 2010, at 1:12 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Yes, I was envisaging something like gitPAN. Though if this took off
> then moving the tarball->git import logic to the PAUSE server would
> probably be a good idea.
/me stashes these ideas away for PGAN…
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Tim Bunce wrote:
Random thoughts...
* If you squint a little you can view git as a database with excellent
replication support.
* cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo.
* For backwards compatibility a simple perl web server could provide a
classic CPAN http
> -Original Message-
> From: Tim Bunce [mailto:tim.bu...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tim Bunce
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 5:51 PM
> To: cpan-workers; module-authors@perl.org
> Subject: Distributing the CPAN
> * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo.
>
> * Over time the
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:50:49PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> * The need for widespread mirroring is less significant than it was in
> years past. (Also using git as the inter-mirror transport of source files
> means there'll be much less traffic between mirrors. Effectively only
> the diffs betwee
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