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

This has already existed for about a year or more.

See pip's .p5i file (which I think cpanminus also supports).

Adam K

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Curtis Jewell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why don't we make the .cpan/.c6pan file (.c6pan) a JSON file, generated
> by PAUSE once the tarball is uploaded, with whatever information is
> required (a reference to the tarball, what version of perl is required,
> etc.) in order, when that file is passed to a CPAN client, to download
> and install the tarball.
>
> I don't see why a "double-clickable" file (or what-have-you equivalent)
> necessarily has to be the distribution tarball?
>
> That way, the tarball can keep its extension... best of both worlds yet?