Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:36 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> 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.

By producing a tool that is compatible with rsync (or a fork, or a
patch, whatever) that *also* does the extra stuff you want, and selling
it as the bee's knees for mirror admins, so that they have a good reason
to use it for all their mirroring needs instead of the unimproved rsync.

"It slices, it dices, it makes julienne mirrors!"


-'f