Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN
[email protected] (Jesse Vincent)
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:14:45AM -0700, Ovid wrote: > --- 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. That would be a pretty policy significant change. Historically, so long as your tarball is well-formed, you can upload line-noise[1] to PAUSE and it will propagate it. -Jesse [1] Consequently, changing this would entirely break the ability to upload Perl 4 code to the CPAN.