On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 17:19 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 6 August 2013 17:13, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > >> Also, CPAN, like Linux distro trees, can be mirrored with rsync rather > >> than needing a custom client. It's much easier to maintain backwards > >> compatibility when the only required server API is the ability to > >> serve static files. > >> > > > > I will fight any attempt to do this with every fiber of my being. This kind > > of "dumb server" API means that any metadata indexing or searching either > > needs to be precomputed or implemented in a much more intelligent client. > > This is already somewhat the case with pip, and as someone that has to deal > > with multiple client implementations it makes me very sad that I can't just > > call a REST endpoint to know what will be installed when I do a thing. This > > is neither here nor there, but I wanted to stake out my grounds so I can > > growl when people get too close :) > > I agree having a smart server is good, I just think exposing a dumb, > easy to mirror, signed data store is good, too :)
FWIW I think CPAN is structured such that search sites operate on mirrored data. The master server thus can remain dumb. Sounds like a good recipe to me. It's a bit sad but i think even now we are struggling to meet CPAN's architecture and ease-of-use, let alone improve on it. holger _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
