On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:06:06AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only > > > mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean > > > it up a bit and let you have it. > > > > For a mere $20, with profits going to YAS? > > That's a good idea. I'll be at YAPC ... maybe there will be some takers > there.
It's not an original idea, in that Amsterdam.pm got a firm (Nedstat, it says on it) to sponsor a CPAN CD which they gave out for free at YAPC::Europe::2001 Before burning lots you might want to check whether the YAPC::NA guys have borrowed the idea. > > If whatever OS you're usually using is happy with bzip2 compressed files, > > then you may be able to cram another 5 to 10% on the CD by turning all the > > tar.gz files to tar.bz2. You may also make some savings by re-packing zips > > as tar.gz files, and even more as tar.bz2 > > Another good idea. I keep running out of disk space. It's less painful than deleting files. But a lot slower, as bzip2 is somewhat slower than gzip. But putting lots of CPU once into compressing more seems to be the correct trade for any write-once, read-many archive. Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
