You mean, how it currently points at ftp.cpan.org, which is multiplexed, doesn't do enough for you?
Do your homework. -R (wetware hater) At Mon, 7 May 2007 13:12:35 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote: > > shouldn't we be pointing at http://www.cpan.org and let the cpan multiplexer > pass us to an appropriate mirror anyway? That would be a sensible default, > and if your site wants to use a specific or a local mirror, you can always > reconfigure later. > > osfameron > > On 06/05/07, A. Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: > > * demerphq <demer...@gmail.com> [2007-05-06 18:55]: > > > CPAN/Perl runs on so many configurations and platforms that if > > > *it* came with a precanned config it would be wrong an awful > > > lot of the time. The OP made it sound like the only OS out > > > there was *NIX. > > > > I did say that when you install Perl from source, then it is > > entirely reasonable for CPAN.pm to ask a bunch of questions. When > > you install a binary package, though, it seems reasonable that > > the packager would have enough info to provide at least a minimal > > canned CPAN.pm config, the exception being which mirror to use. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> > > > >
