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 09:53:45PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Adam Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been meaning to propose for a while that for CPAN Perl 5 we drop > > support for everything other than tar.gz (we can talk about the need > > for zip files later) and encourage a switch to something like > > > > D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Foo-Bar-1.23.cpan > > +1 (reserving the option to bikeshed about the extension) -1 Forcing an extension makes all sorts of tools that previously "just worked" with a tarball suddenly start to fail.