Re: CPAN is getting too big

[Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>]

Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com> writes:
>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 an exclude list in my private mirror at home which does those and 
some other binaries.

-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.

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References to:

Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>

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