Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

> Says the author of a module named Paranoid. A lovely coincidence.

:-) As they say, just because you may be paranoid, it doesn't mean that no
one's out to get you.

> 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?

Heh, nice.  That sounds much more involved than my proposal, plus it leaves
us entirely at the mercy of an outside organization (the rsync folks) who
may or may not care about our needs.

I think it would be a worthy cause ultimately, but certainly a much longer
time to implementation, and considerably more effort.  Kind of sounds like
the normal stonewalling I've been getting these last few days by our
resident rsync fetishists.

Very ironic.  I use the hell out of rsync, just more discriminately that you
guys, and yet I'm public enemy number one.

 	--Arthur Corliss
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