On 28 Mar 2010, at 19:32, Elaine Ashton wrote: > Jarkko and I were talking about it this morning - as he's not in favour of > pruning - while trying to think of a way around the size problem and he > reminded me of the idea that, if I recall correctly was Adreas' suggestion a > while back, there be an A, B and C 'PAN' of sorts where you could pull > varying degrees of content - sort of CPAN:Mini writ large. I don't think that > idea ever got any traction because it wouldn't really solve some of the > issues for the major upstream mirrors and the mechanics of deciding where to > draw the lines between them. I still think it's a good idea though.
We're nearly there if A == a CPAN::Mini style mirror, B == the current mirror pruned and C == backpan. So the actions to make that happen are: * give the current clients specific support for this * generate a master mini mirror that other mini mirrors can pull from. * prune If we agree that this is a good solution I'm happy to do some work on it - I could host the mini master and I'd be happy to send Andreas a patch for CPAN.pm to support this scheme. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
