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

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Jesse Vincent <[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.

... which is why I wouldn't be so silly as to suggest it would be the
exclusive extension or anything else that would break
back-compatibility. I'm usually the one here arguing FOR additional
compat.

The dedicated extension doesn't work as well for Perl 5 as it works
for Perl 6 (which has the option of starting fresh).

But if .cpan was just a renamed .tgz it would at least give us the
extension-hook options at the client end fairly easily without
changing almost anything anywhere in the current toolchain. In the
Perl 5 situation you'd by no means forbid regular tarball naming.

Adam K