Re: Perl 6 modules plan

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 03:39:32PM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> =head1 THINGS THAT NEED DOING
> 
> =item Testing tools
> 
> See L<Test::Simple>, L<Test::More>, L<Pod::Tests>

Because they're so young, these should be trivial translations to Perl
6.

At the moment, if you want to help out a test module, help Test::Unit.
Also things like Devel::Cover and Devel::DProf.


> Will CPAN's role remain unchanged?  Will there be a separate space for
> Perl 6 modules (6PAN)?  
> 
> If we do want to make changes to CPAN then Perl 6 gives us an
> opportunity for a "flag day" if we need one.  OK, not an actually flag
> *day*, but at least a point where we can say "Things are different for
> Perl 6" and to hell with backwards compatibility ;)

Jarko made very vague noises at TPC that CPAN and Perl 6 would be
handled by simply having a different directory.
ftp://some.mirror.org/CPAN/perl6/ or something.  Seems perfectly
sensible.



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