Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

[email protected] (Ricardo Signes)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* "Andreas J. Koenig" <[email protected]> [2010-01-03T05:36:43]
>   > Does this need anything special to support Perl 6 namespace ownership or 
>   > would it just be a duplicate of the Perl 5 "schema"?
> 
> It's special in that perl 6 allows to run multiple versions of a
> module together within the same process. Conflicts only arise on
> namespace+version level. Indexers must keep old versions available.

It's more than that: namespace+user+version, I think.  I can ask for the RJBS
version of Foo or the ANDK version of Foo, as I recall.

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rjbs
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