Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] (Andy Lester)
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On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Lars Thegler wrote: > I appreciate that the number of files on CPAN has implications for the > infrastructure, but I feel a need to have some more factual info > before conceding to such measures. Absolutely. This factual info would ideally look like this: "Of the 17,000 distros on CPAN, there are 8,000 that have versions more than a year older than the most recent one. If those distros with versions more than a year out of date were purged, the number of files would decrease from 200,000 to 120,000. This would save 7GB out of the 12GB that a full CPAN mirror takes now. Removing that 7GB would mean Benefit X to mirror owners." Without that, how can module authors be bothered to care? xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [email protected] => www.theworkinggeek.com => AIM:petdance