On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:27, Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> wrote:
> Just an opinion: imho every effort should go towards integrating CPAN > in any way. > > Perl without CPAN feels like Kung-Fu on stack-heel shoe. > > Maybe any of those META2.0, cpanminus, CPAN::Packager, > CPAN::Dpendency, MyCPAN::*, POD6 thingies could be assembled into > something to integrate Perl6 with CPAN? > > And, yes, I consider it valid to have a Perl5 toolchain doing that. > There is a problem with that, and that is that we may want to re-use the same package names that are already in use on CPAN, in order to avoid evil Klingon naming contortions (good Klingon naming contortions are of course QaQ). I also think that it's important packages are cryptographically signed by their maintainers. -- Jan