Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-06-10 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Scott R. Godin wrote: > I too had a hard time believing how some of the internal versioning is > done. crazy regex and substr reductions of long version strings > instead of a simple package::VERSION = nn.nn.nn; > *bemused headscratching* I'm sure a good percentage of that i

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-06-10 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iain Truskett) wrote: > > The only thing I would want to avoid is pulling over something if you > > have it already & deleting older packages as new ones come along. > > The former, it does. The latter, it doesn't. Can I blame the way that > no

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-27 Thread Iain Truskett
* Jay Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [27 May 2002 01:04]: [...] > The only thing I would want to avoid is pulling over something if you > have it already & deleting older packages as new ones come along. The former, it does. The latter, it doesn't. Can I blame the way that nobody seems to be able

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:06:06AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only > > > mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are i

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-26 Thread Jay Lawrence
On May 25, 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only > > mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean > > it up a bit and let you have it. > > For a

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0400, Jay Lawrence wrote: > > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror > of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a > bit and let you have it. For a mere $20, with profits going to YAS? > I

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Iain Truskett
* Jay Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26 May 2002 01:12]: > Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only > mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could > clean it up a bit and let you have it. > I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on

Re: howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-25 Thread Jay Lawrence
Using Rsync and a bit o' Perl I have developed a latest version only mirror of CPAN. Its very crude but if people are interested I could clean it up a bit and let you have it. I still find that its hard to strip CPAN down to fit on a CD ... but I am certain that there is some stuff in there t

howto "mirror" subset of CPAN?

2002-05-23 Thread Boyd Moore
Because of slow tcp/ip connection, I would like to burn a cdrom of only the last 2-3 versions of all the modules in the CPAN library. This cdrom would be used to access CPAN on a intranet that has no outside connections. Could you advise on how to selectively download the modules? I can think of