Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN

[email protected] (Ovid)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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--- On Wed, 14/4/10, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:

> No need for a radio-box if PAUSE auto-detects from the META
> file.
> 
> Tim.

Agreed, but you know you're going to see this and variants thereof:

     requires:
         perl: 6,0

Should that be a rejection for unknown format? I would think so.  Better to fail early than have junk spread throughout the CPAN.

Cheers,
Ovid

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