On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:20 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Shlomi Fish wrote:
Yes, I also want secondary CPANPLUS repositories
Any reason you can't use CPAN::Mini?
> so people can set up
their
own in-house repositories for in-house code
We already do that. It's a matter of having some Stuff that
appends our own local distributions onto the end of the packages
gzip file. I'll see if we can release it.
That would be great.
I have set up in-house repositories for two clients (Technorati and
Barclays Global Investors) but I don't have the rights to the code
for either one.
CPAN::Mini is designed to mirror a public CPAN, not to be part of a
"search path", which is what I want.
On Oct 5, 2007, at 3:04 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
Hi Matisse!
First of all, don't start new threads by replying to existing
messages. Write
a new message to perl-qa@perl.org
oops - I knew that but didn't do it. Sorry!
Yes, I also want secondary CPANPLUS repositories, so people can set
up their
own in-house repositories for in-house code, or that people can set up
entirely new CPAN-like networks.
...
Shall I patch CPAN or CPANPLUS?
That would be nice.
So how should we do it?
Here's a straw-man proposal:
Add a new setting:
'repository_search_policy' => q[chained_search], # chained_search
| use_first | ???
If the repository_search_policy is 'chained_search' then change the
handling of the urllist parameter so that for *every* fetch of a
module or distro CPAN would check if the desired download is
available starting with the first repository in the list:
Example:
'repository_search_policy' => q[chained_search],
'urllist' => [
q[https://cpan1.private-net/CPAN],
q[ftp://cpan2.private-net],
q[ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/pub/CPAN],
q[ftp://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CPAN]
],
So, if you tried to install:
My::Private::Module
depends on Date::Calc
depends on Bit::Vector
this is what might the CPAN module would do:
cpan1.private-net - doesn't find it
cpan2.private-net - finds it and starts to install
Dependency found on Date::Calc
cpan1.private-net - finds it and starts to install
Dependency found on Bit::Vector
cpan1.private.net - not found
cpan2.private.net - not found
mirrors.kernel.org - server unreachable
mirrors.ibiblio.org - found and installed
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