An FTP based Python Module repository (was Re: Imagemagick)
chris patti
cpatti at black-racer.atg.com
Fri Feb 4 12:50:56 EST 2000
Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> writes:
> chris> One of the reasons for CPAN's success in the Perl world is that,
> chris> simply, it's an FTP archive.
>
> chris> Thus, people can and do mirror it. This creates a multi-site,
> chris> persistent cache of the entire library, so when the one site where
> chris> module Frobnitz.pm comes from goes down, the world doesn't suffer.
>
> Why couldn't a CPAN-like thing be a web site? Web sites can (and are)
> mirrored all the time.
>
There's no reason why it couldn't be, actually.
-Chris
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