Re: CPAN is getting too big

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13.13 +0100 2000.01.05, Johan Vromans wrote:
>This message is intended for CPAN people.
>
>As you may have noticed, the amount of information on CPAN now exceeds
>the 650Mb that fits on a CD-ROM. Since people (like publishers)
>occasionally make CPAN snapshots on CD, we need a way to either split
>or ignore some of the contents.
>
>Before re-inventing wheels, what do you think?

Ignoring the copyright restrictions for a moment: one thing you might do is
ignore anything that follows the binary distribution format (it will
normally contain "-bin-" in the name), or ones that end in ".bin" or ".sit"
or ".hqx".  I have some significantly large files in my directory that
follow that, and they are binary distributions of things.  Filtering out
those in my directory alone might save about 4-5MB.  :-)

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