Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 27 Mar 2010, at 00:59, Elaine Ashton wrote: The only snag I can forsee in trimming back on the abundance of modules is the case where some modules have version requirements for other modules where it will barf with a mismatch/newer version of the required module (I bumped into this

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread nadim khemir
On 27 Mar 2010, at 00:59, Andy Armstrong wrote: On 27 Mar 2010, at 00:59, Elaine Ashton wrote: The only snag I can forsee in trimming back on the abundance of modules is the case where some modules have version requirements for other modules where it will barf with a mismatch/newer version

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote: I You? Or someone else? I am quite happy to agree that your understanding and experience of storage management is better than mine. But that's not the key question, in a volunteer organisation. The questions I ask, repeating Jan's comments in

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:02:22PM -0800, Arthur Corliss wrote: Why use rsync, then? Why not have checkpointed logs on cpan with additions/removals logged by date so you can roll forward on the client, processing only those files? It would be trivial to set up and a lot more efficient.

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oh, I understand that fully. And I'd be happy to lend some of my time. But you don't make people inclined to help when people are lobbing snarky comments like we'll wait breathlessly for you to do it. The time-honored tradition of many open source communities is to talk. And talk. And

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: The time-honored tradition of many open source communities is to talk. And talk. And talk. The problem is that this solves nothing. To do, does. You are free to decide to take this as a personal insult. I didn't take it as an insult, I took

Re: Trimming the CPAN - Automatic Purging

2010-03-27 Thread Arthur Corliss
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Elaine Ashton wrote: Actually, I thought I was merely offering my opinion both as the sysadmin for the canonical CPAN mothership and as an end-user. If that makes me a prick, well, I suppose I should go out and buy one :) :-) You'll have to pardon my indiscriminate