On Fri, 29 May 2009, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
While I've no objection to building the end-user software to support
multiple repositories, I know that there are certain segments of the
community who are very very keen to keep everything in the one repository.
After reading the Zen of Comprehensive Archive Networks (ZCAN), I think there
is very good reason for retaining the current infrastructure with the
current, large, set of mirrors. That is not to say that we can't upgrade the
packages and metadata.
Agreed.
I'd agree with them, on the following conditions:
- CPAN accepts packages in Perl5, Perl6, and anything else that runs on
Parrot
"CPAN shall not piggyback another language" -- from ZCAN.
Judging from the ZCAN page, I don't expect that uploading Ruby modules to
CPAN will go well, even if that module can be compiled to Parrot. The ZCAN
page gave good reasons for this.
I didn't find them compelling, myself. Because it's possible to call
the Ruby modules from Perl6 now, if they're compiled on Parrot, it may be
worth thinking about.
- Some of the other changes mentioned here get implemented (ie. Larry's
idea of putting binary packages on CPAN as well)
I personally don't care. But some mirrors might object to having their disk
usage go up 5-fold because we decided to include binaries for many operating
systems and CPUs.
I agree that's a problem. However, the recent suggestion of multiple
repos on CPAN for the different OSs has given me an idea; make it possible to
mirror CPAN for a certain set of architectures, ie. "Source only" (this is the
default), "Fedora", "Debian", "Nokia", etc.
HTH,
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