Re: Compare functions in two versions of a CPAN distro

2015-02-07 Thread David Precious
y - pointed at a git checkout which I switch between release branches in between runs of the benchmark script, alternatively just pointed at two different dirs containing different versions). -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitt

Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

2017-09-20 Thread David Precious
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:08:34 -0400 James E Keenan wrote: > On 09/20/2017 06:01 PM, Neil Bowers wrote: > > One thing we could do is have a tool looking at newly registered > > package names and alert the PAUSE admins to have a look at any that > > are a short edit distance from an existing package

Re: Open source archives hosting malicious software packages

2017-09-21 Thread David Precious
On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 01:00:22 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > On 22 September 2017 at 00:11, David Cantrell > wrote: > > > But is anyone paying attention? I assume you're talking about > > #cpantesters, which I'm on, but I hardly ever look at it, and when > > I do look I certainly don't look at scro

Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

2010-04-01 Thread David Precious
On Thursday 01 April 2010 05:39:27 David Nicol wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > The main point here is that we can't use 20 inodes per distribution. > > so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a > database instead of a file system? It

Re: new instant mirroring client

2011-06-16 Thread David Precious
client (and finding it to work well), so when I have sufficient tuits of circular shape, I'll try out iim alongside and offer any feedback I can. Incidentally, I've not seen any reports on the progress of instant mirroring for a bit - have I mised anything? Cheers Dave P -- David P