Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

# from Adam Kennedy
# on Saturday 02 January 2010 20:32:

>Working from the inside outwards, the part we need first is probably
>the permissions database

Does this need anything special to support Perl 6 namespace ownership or 
would it just be a duplicate of the Perl 5 "schema"?

Or, from the outside again:  What sort of indexes are required and thus 
what data do they need the gatekeeper to manage?

There was a mention (by japhb) on #toolchain about parrot modules being 
hostable on multiple servers, which required the client to various 
metadata from multiple sources.  Also:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/geoffrey_broadwell/2009/12/welcome-and-say-hello-to-my-friend-plumage.html

>, and then a PAUSE-like thing on top of that.

If we require a metafile for Perl 6 distributions, could the p6-ness 
potentially be auto-detected and handled by the same upload tool?

--Eric
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