Re: Distributing the CPAN

On Apr 2, 2010, at 14:03, Tim Bunce wrote:

> Imagine a cpan-all 'superproject' repro that has all the distros as
> submodules.  This repro would be tiny when cloned because it only
> contains empty directories for the distos plus the metadata for where
> the upstream distro repro lives and what the current commit it.
> When a distro is updated the cpan-all repro would be updated
> to reference the latest version of the distro.

That's a really good idea actually.   That'd mean, too, that it's possible to "reset" a distribution (to get rid of excessive size etc).

It'd be fun to try on the gitpan data...


 - ask (on a sketchy 3g connection out in the country)