Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"
[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig))
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>>>>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:44:49 -0800 (AKDT), Arthur Corliss <[email protected]> said: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >> The time-honored tradition of many open source communities is to >> talk. And talk. And talk. The problem is that this solves nothing. >> To do, does. >> >> You are free to decide to take this as a personal insult. > I didn't take it as an insult, I took it as what it was -- a dodge. You > already have your minds made up and are not willing to evaluate options > on their merits. Says the author of a module named Paranoid. A lovely coincidence. > Let's just be honest about what's going on here. If you want to study the CPAN "checkpointed logs" solution running on the very CPAN for exactly one year now: File::Rsync::Mirror::Recent What needs to be done is really extremely trivial: rewrite it in C and convince the rsync people to incoude it in rsync code base. Just that. So are you a taker, Arthur? -- andreas