Re: Perl 6 versus the CPAN

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
# from Adam Kennedy
# on Monday 04 January 2010 16:07:

>I'd rather like to avoid adding additional complexity to the current
>index files.
>...
>This would, of course, mean that SQLite and DBI support is needed in
> ... the modules needed to install other modules ...
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DBI is getting a bit weighty for the bootstrapping kit.  I suppose you 
could make it a two-stage thing.  Perhaps the entry point is a short 
index of client tools which are themselves able to fetch the bigger 
index(es).

>Failing this, a simple idea has been to produce a JSON structure which
>has a similar logical structure to the database.

It is a generated thing, right?  I somewhat like the idea of it being 
able to have more than one format.  Piecewise updates would be grand.

On a related note, I'm really liking mongodb.

--Eric
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