Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Daniel Ruoso (dan...@ruoso.com) [081217 13:19]: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2008-12-18 às 11:38 +0100, Mark Overmeer escreveu: In the current state of affairs, CPAN is limited to Perl5 and strongely entangled by Perl5 install tools. Do we want to have people install Perl5 on their (maybe small) machine before they can install Perl6 stuff? Rpm-tools and

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread B. Estrade
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:19:07AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?DistributionFormat

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago:

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: It also allows one source package to generate different binary packages (for instance, having scripts, libs and docs splitted), and makes it easier to do an uninstall, because a binary/installable package would have a fixed list of files. I agree on

6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I've been working on some stuff that's vaguely, tangentially CPAN-related. My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 16, at 23:00, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it should be able to model the metadata from a .rpm, a .deb, a CPAN package, or whatever. Then you read the data using a metadata input

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 16, at 23:00, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it should be able to model the metadata from a .rpm, a .deb, a CPAN package, or