Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:40:49PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> The FTP network can be reused without any real trouble.

As can almost all of PAUSE's infrastructure.

> But the current index, client and META.yml stuff are all completely
> unusable for Perl 6.


META.yml is actually fairly reasonable for p6, but "whatever" - and new
indexes have previously been generated by entities other than PAUSE. But
I'ld love to see patches to PAUSE to generate reasonable P6 indexes.
(Whether Andreas would  like such a thing is another question entirely
(and the one that actually matters.)

I'm led to believe that there's active work in the Rakudo community 
on a new client.

I, for one, would be REALLY, REALLY UNHAPPY if we jettison the P6
community from CPAN. Keeping Perl in one Comprehensive Archive Network  
is something we should try as hard as possible to maintain.

Best,
Jesse