Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN
[email protected] (Ruslan Zakirov)
| Newsgroups | perl.cpan.workers |
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Hello Ovid. Jesse was trying to convince people to re-use the current CPAN architecture to host p6 modules. Cced him. May be he has some summary. On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Ovid <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've started writing Config::INI, an INI reader/writer in Perl 6. It's on github at http://github.com/Ovid/Config-INI. > > This has raised several interesting issues, but the most important is that I didn't check the CPAN, but it turns out Ricardo Signes has a Perl 5 version: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-INI/. Can we have identically named P5 and P6 modules on the CPAN? We should be able to, but I don't that will actually fly. > > I know there was a fair chunk of discussion regarding Perl 6 on the CPAN, but have we gotten anywhere? More and more Perl 6 code is being written and sooner or later, people would like someplace to put it other than github or code.google.com :) > > Cheers, > Ovid > -- > Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ > Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ > Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl > Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6 -- Best regards, Ruslan.