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 <a...@ali.as> 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.
