Re: CPAN upload previewer

I am surprised that CPAN/PAUSE doesn't seem to have a preview facility to check that the pod looks okay on the internet.

I'm surprised you are surprised.

If you ever uploaded something to PAUSE, you would have noticed that distributions aren't processed instantly. Instead, there's a batchjob running in the background processing recent uploads. Being able to "preview" pods means processing distributions needs to be done real time. Which would require more resources server side, as suddenly one has to scale against peak loads, instead of being able to average the processing time.

Considering the limited advantage (IMO, close to nill) of doing the processing real time, I'm not surprised noone has donated the hardware (and time to change the software) to enable this.

But you can always talk to Andreas about donating hardware and time.

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Re^2: CPAN upload previewer by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Sep 09, 2009 at 17:24 UTC
I am aware that it is a batch process and I was not suggesting that be changed. I think the reason it needs to be a batch process is so that integrity checking on version numbers and permissions can be done. A preview service could be much simpler perhaps taking indidual .pm files or a large textbox and ignoring integrity checks. I can understand the issue with extra resources. I could provide such a service myself if I get a clear idea of what the code would be. On my last reading of this thread the jury seemed to be out on that.	[reply]

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Re^2: CPAN upload previewer
by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Sep 09, 2009 at 17:24 UTC

I am aware that it is a batch process and I was not suggesting that be changed. I think the reason it needs to be a batch process is so that integrity checking on version numbers and permissions can be done. A preview service could be much simpler perhaps taking indidual .pm files or a large textbox and ignoring integrity checks. I can understand the issue with extra resources. I could provide such a service myself if I get a clear idea of what the code would be. On my last reading of this thread the jury seemed to be out on that.

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