>> However, shouldn't knowing something about the location can start that >> more quickly when there are several hundred mirrors? > > No need for everyone to contact all mirrors.
You're talking about something different than Adam's Mirror::YAML, which doesn't carry location information. The stuff that we have now, which is what you are talking about, seems to work better and is what CPAN::Mirror already uses, although not in the JSON form yet. -- brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> http://www.pair.com/~comdog/
