David E. Weekly

- added localization support to many (but not ALL) places required to allow for extraction - enabled Swift strings extraction compiler support in the project - provided first-pass French translation/localization...

Update documentation to suggest installing python3-distutils on Ubuntu

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Note that Ubuntu 18 (+ 16 IIRC) don't automatically install the distutils package. A prerequisite for successful build from source is therefore to perform this step before running the setup.py...

A first pass at an automated French translation, courtesy xlate.dev

First pass at adding HTTPS support to CPAN.

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To address https://github.com/andk/cpanpm/issues/118 Adds HTTPS to MIRRORED.BY and enforces cert checks with LWP using Mozilla::CA.

Update .gitignore to ignore test outputs

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e.g. related/Bundle-CPAN/MYMETA.json

We should protect perl users out-of-the box by checking their module signatures unless they've told us otherwise. When check_sigs was set to 0 for first time users 13 years ago,...

"Promote" Module::Signature from Bundle::CPANxxl to Bundle::CPAN

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Module::Signature is critical for validating signatures for downloaded CPAN modules; lacking enforced signatures or HTTPS support in CPAN, Perl installs don't know the provenance of the source codes they are...

Add https types for example MIRRORED.BY

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This takes the current MIRRORED.BY and adds dst_https support for hosts that seem to properly support it without errors. This is part of the broader effort to add HTTPS support...

Especially with LetsEncrypt, we should be encouraging mirror operators to serve CPAN content over HTTPS to ensure integrity.