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

[email protected] (David Cantrell)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:17:55AM -0500, Graham Barr wrote:

> > [1] Consequently, changing this would entirely break the ability to upload Perl 4 code to the CPAN.
> 
> nope. it just would not be indexed. but then perl4 code may not get indexed today either

It has to have .pm files to be indexed, and at least one of them has to
have a $VERSION in it in such a way that PAUSE can parse.  The Magic for
that is in PAUSE::pmfile::parse_version_safely in mldistwatch.pm.

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