Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

--- On Mon, 4/1/10, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>

> >If Parrot itself supports trans-language calls (which
> I'm led to
> >understand it can?) then a single index gives us the
> potentially huge
> >win of cross-language dependencies.
> 
> Does it?  Tell me how the second API should work and
> how to build that 
> index:
> 
>   look_in_index($language, $name, $author, $version);
> 
>   look_in_index($name, $author, $version);

From the Rakudo test suite:

  use perl5:Text::Wrap 'wrap';

That currently doesn't work, but the intention is certainly there.  I've already wanted to rewrite Term::Screen using Perl 5's Term::Cap as a dependency (because rewriting the latter is proving to be a nightmare) and when it's ready, how do I declare that my P6 code has a P5 dependency?

> Or, Ricardo gets to keep Config::INI and Curtis has to wait
> for p5 support in parrot?

Fortunately, I'm not in a hurry to get this on the CPAN :)

Cheers,
Ovid
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