Ovid wrote:
--- Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Smartening the CPAN and CPANPLUS modules doesn't help the people
who've
already got them installed are happy using them and haven't
encountered
a reason to upgrade.
Reluctantly agreed.
Is there going to be a CPAN BOF at OSCON to discuss this problem? The
heat is slowly turning up.
<incomplete thought>
Neither CPAN.pm nor CPANPLUS do a scan of cpan.org, correct? They get
info from the package list. So, only the indexer needs to be made smart
- don't catalog perl6 modules in the old package list. CPAN.pm &
CPANPLUS will happily ignore anything else.
As far as distinguishing, there a lot of talk in the past in the context
of Apache2 about adding a field ("generation") which serves basically
the same purpose - It distinguishes between multiple code bases intended
for different targets.
</incomplete thought>
Randy.
