Re: Leo is skinning www.cpan.org

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler") Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:45:00 -0700

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On Sep 26, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:

>> How we syndicate is (a) easy if we just use the old MIRRORED.BY that old clients support and (b) half-easy if we have a new way to publish information that future
>> clients can support.
> 
> For new clients I'd really like if we put the discovery mechanism on a separate hostname from the regular mirrors (a copy of the files should be on the mirrors, too).
> 
> Related notes: would it make sense to sign the (timestamped) list of mirrors?

For PGXN I basically took MIRRORED.BY and turned it into a JSON file.

David