On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:57 -0800, dhu...@hudes.org wrote: > Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. What's rough is the rsync > between > mirrors. Compressing to .bz2 won't help that: the stress is doing a stat > on every single file in CPAN not the transfer. Work toward optimizing the > mirror distribution instead of worrying about bz2 vs gz. Remember not > everyone is on UNIX or UNIX-like: Windows users use CPAN also and AFAIK > Windows doesn't understand .bz2 -- certainly not .xz .
Windows itself doesn't. I can't speak for any OTHER perl distribution on Windows, but Strawberry Perl has been including modules that handle .bz2 since before the July 2009 "first .msi" release, and the 32-bit versions of the July 2010 includes .xz-handling modules, as well, if I recall correctly (I can't recall right now why they fail on 64-bit so far, but I know they do.) --Curtis Jewell -- Curtis Jewell csjew...@cpan.org http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/ p...@csjewell.fastmail.us http://csjewell.comyr.org/perl/ "Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c Strawberry Perl for Windows betas: http://strawberryperl.com/beta/
