* Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-29 23:30]: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:25:34PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > * Andy Lester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-29 23:15]: > > > Best is the enemy of the good. > > > > And next time this will be handy, it will also be too big a > > change vs. an incremental suboptimal solution, and the > > overnext time as well, and ever on. > > What do you propose we do?
I thought about it for a bit and found there are some faintly tricky questions. Nothing too serious, but I’m not entirely sure of all the answers, so I don’t have a proposal on hand. Mostly the questions are things like whether the data should live on the CPAN FTP itself or should search.cpan gain an account system? Maybe have PAUSE would provide a bunch of pages with settings and generate a file from them that would go on the FTP? The concern is “distance of metadata” I guess – it shouldn’t be too onerous for automatic tools working against the FTP, such as CPAN.pm, to get at this data, even though it lives outside the distribution. The 01mailrc.txt and 02packages.details.txt seem like obvious candidates but I don’t know how extensible their formats are? I don’t see any insurmountable problems, it’s just a matter of hashing out the choices and picking one. Is there honest interest? I am up for it if the people who’d need to play along are also. (Who maintains PAUSE f.ex.?) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
