Re: Adjusting CPAN::Mirrors to make it more useful

[email protected] (Ask Bjørn Hansen)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Feb 7, 2011, at 22:55, brian d foy wrote:

> And, who makes the MIRRORED.BY file? I imagine that's something from a
> script that Jarkko makes, but how does it get the data?

Henk Penning (aka the mirror list master since a few months ago) maintains a master mirrors.json file that a script on the perl.org servers converts to MIRRORED.BY.

> I'd like to see about exporting it as JSON or something.

Henk and I were just talking about adding a mirrors.json file a few days ago actually...  So yes, coming soon.

> Also, is it something that noc.perl.org has to handle as the master CPAN moves off of FUNET?

Already done; just not announced yet.


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