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

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:59:32PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> 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.

-1

It's also the wrong place to encode version information.

Tim.