Re: Modules

2008-10-12 Thread Moritz Lenz
Elyse M. Grasso wrote: I was able to surface long enough to review the use of perl modules in our current, perl5-based architecture. And the answer is that we hardly use any, because it was written against an old version of perl5 shipped with a very limited set of modules and little or no

Re: Modules

2008-10-12 Thread Elyse M. Grasso
Actually, if the parts of perl6 needed for Cwd and File::Copy are not well specced yet, porting them is probably a very useful place to start in terms of getting perl6 ready for prime time. Even if I'm not successful at porting them in the first pass, the questions and problems I come up with

Re: Modules

2008-10-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Moritz Lenz wrote: I would like to use an official CGI.pm, if one is available. Please forget about the official. Perl 6 will hopefully have multiple implementations, and they are all official if they pass the test suite. From what I've gathered so far, Perl 6 core will

Re: Modules

2008-10-12 Thread ispyhumanfly
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: From what I've gathered so far, Perl 6 core will only be shipped with the modules needed to install more modules, for which CGI certainly isn't needed. Just as a word of explanation for Elyse, the reasoning I saw behind this was, if we ship it with few enough