Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN
[email protected] (Ovid)
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--- On Wed, 14/4/10, Jesse Vincent <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jesse Vincent <[email protected]> > > > 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. > > > > Just to confirm, you mean "refuse to index" not "refuse to > propagate > the file", right? To be honest, I'm not sure. Definitely don't index that, but if someone presents an invalid version, you could wind up with a lot of junk that might be hard to clean out. Of course, since I won't be the one cleaning the junk, I'm not worried. If my CPAN client was picking up bogus entries in indices, then I'd be worried :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6