On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> 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 > > 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.
I'm not at all precious about the specific file extension we use. > As for zip, bz2, 7zip and such files... they're all bags of bytes last I > checked. The limitation would be to reduce the surface area of the "standard" and thus reduce the number of dependencies and level of complexity imposed on cpan client implementations. Adam K
