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

On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:48 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
> 
>> If we separate Perl 5 and Perl 6 distributions within the file system,
>> we can distinguish between them easily and without relying on indexes,
>> meta data files or other elements of complexity.
> 
> True, but is that *really* a significant need? Why bother?

If we do not, then we need a different naming convention for the tar files.
Otherwise how can we upload FooBar-1.45.tar.gz that works for perl5 and also
FooBar-1.45.tar.gz that is written in perl6

The perl5 version may work with perl6, but no visa-versa.

I think there needs to be some separation in the file space in order
to do this. Using a directory perl6/ and controlling that via PAUSE
seems a bit more reliable and consistent than expecting users to use
a particular convention not to confuse files.

>> We also thought that it might be relatively easy for to add
>> radio-boxes to the PAUSE upload page to indicate Perl 5 or Perl 6 and
>> to place Perl 6 distributions into the proper directory without it
>> having to be specified explicitly.  (Whether it *must* be specified as
>> one or the other, which would require updates to Perl 5 tools like
>> CPAN::Uploader I will defer to Andreas' judgment.)
> 
> No need for a radio-box if PAUSE auto-detects from the META file.

I think there are arguments both for and against. For example
what to do if PAUSE cannot detect ?

Graham.