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

[email protected] (Jesse Vincent)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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Larry points out that the shibboleth for Perl 6 code is:

: No package statements.  Instead, you'll see "module" statements.

That ought to be a pretty reasonable way for the indexer to know it's
Perl 6 code in the absence of other markers.  I do think that xdg's plan
to have an at-upload-time flag for "hey, this is perl 6" which tells
PAUSE not to even _try_ looking at the tarball as a Perl 5 module makes
tons of sense.

And I really like having Perl 6 dists split out into /perl6/ inside an
author directory. It keeps the author tree together as one coherent
community while making it really easy for people browsing the hierarchy
to understand what's what.
-Jesse
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