> > META.yml is actually fairly reasonable for p6, but "whatever" - and new > indexes have previously been generated by entities other than PAUSE. But > I'ld love to see patches to PAUSE to generate reasonable P6 indexes. > (Whether Andreas would like such a thing is another question entirely > (and the one that actually matters.) > > I'm led to believe that there's active work in the Rakudo community > on a new client. > > I, for one, would be REALLY, REALLY UNHAPPY if we jettison the P6 > community from CPAN. Keeping Perl in one Comprehensive Archive Network > is something we should try as hard as possible to maintain.
Agreed. There's no reason we couldn't get Perl 6 to work with CPAN. I think small incremental steps and loose coupling will be the way. If the Perl 5 side of things gets better while doing it, well, we cannot complain. > Best, > Jesse >