Re: CPAN vs Perl 6

[email protected] (David Golden)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given the constraint of bootstrap-ability, it seems like you should
> answer "Why not tsv?" before reaching for anything more complicated.

Because META is already multi-dimensional and I don't want to find or
re-invent a wheel for representing multi-dimensional data in tsv.  The
YAML/JSON debate is pretty much over as far as the META spec goes and
JSON wins.

Thus, given the pending arrival of JSON into core for META, I see no
reason not to use JSON for index information as well.  The last thing
we need is for CPAN/CPANPLUS/Tool-X to all implement their own tsv
parsers and we don't already have one in core, do we?  (I could be
wrong there).

This is such a stupid bikeshed conversation anyway.

David
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