Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN
[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
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# from Ask Bjørn Hansen
# on Sunday 03 January 2010 14:37:
>> a common indexing system across both languages? Or should we design
>> the indexing specific to the unique semantics of each?
>
>...
> common indexing system. That way future tools built will "just work"
> for both. If we have two different indexing systems/infrastructures
> then we're making the transition to Perl6 harder than it should be
> and eventually making Perl5 lose out on "new stuff".
I think p5 would just have to catch up to p6 spec in terms of module
loading and toolchain support for it, but I would guess that the two
would still need separate index *instances* even if both follow the
same scheme. An index with support for $n languages doesn't seem to
gain much over $n similarly structured indexes.
If I'm understanding the p6 requirements correctly, the small index is
the same as p5: one dist per namespace with first-come, first-serve
namespace ownership. Then the big index is just every available
module+version+author combination, right?
--Eric
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