Re: Distributing the CPAN

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen) Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:16:58 +0200

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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.)

The bandwidth isn't an issue -- the disk IO is.

Maybe there'd be less disk IO with git if all of CPAN was in one big repository; but there are many good reasons for it not to be.

If we had a repository per distribution we're back to square one; more or less.

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