# from Adam Kennedy
# on Wednesday 14 April 2010 17:53:
>Alternative option, when we switch to Perl 6 also take the opportunity
>to switch to a specific named extension.
+1
>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
Yes, but it doesn't have to be so much a dropping as an adopting.
But what is a .cpan file? The CPAN is the archive network, the files on
it are perl distributions, so .p5d/.p6d seems more appropriate.
As for zip, bz2, 7zip and such files... they're all bags of bytes last I
checked.
--Eric
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