Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-29 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:47:51PM +, Smylers wrote: Andy Lester writes: I don't think we need another CPAN at all. There's nothing wrong with putting require 6; at the top of Makefile.PL and keeping everything in one happy CPAN. Some observations: - CPAN is just an ftp mirror

why not SourceForge? (was: Re: Perl6 goes where?)

2005-07-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:50:17AM -0400, Buddy Burden wrote: Brian, Sourceforget sucks. Don't start using it just because I did. :) I'd be really curious to hear your opinions on Sourceforge (there may be a push to force us to start using it here at work). If you don't think you could

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Gábor Szabó
On 7/28/05, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I heard (or more probably read somewhere) that the name was 6PAN? you are mixing it with 6PACK ;-) Gabor

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-28 16:05]: I thought I heard (or more probably read somewhere) that the name was 6PAN? That makes no sense. What is a “6 Perl Archive Network?” Okay, visually, it roughly resembles “CPAN,” but I don’t see that as a good reason to pick a

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Austin Schutz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:47:51PM +, Smylers wrote: Andy Lester writes: I don't think we need another CPAN at all. There's nothing wrong with putting require 6; at the top of Makefile.PL and keeping everything in one happy CPAN. There is a problem if it interferes with people

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: Le jeudi 28 juillet 2005 à 16:32, A. Pagaltzis écrivait: * Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-28 16:05]: I thought I heard (or more probably read somewhere) that the name was 6PAN? That makes no sense. What is a ???6 Perl

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Austin Schutz
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:14:03PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andy Lester wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:32:11PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-07-28 16:05]: I thought I heard (or more probably read

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread David Nicol
On 7/28/05, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andy Lester wrote: I don't think we need another CPAN at all. There's nothing wrong with putting require 6; at the top of Makefile.PL and keeping everything in one happy CPAN. That means CPAN is going to have to parse it,

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Ovid
--- Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: That's true. All the smarts could be centralized in the indexer. But then there's the problem of making sure when someone's browsing CPAN manually (on a regular mirror or on search.cpan.org or

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
Ken Williams wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: 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

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
Ovid wrote: --- Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:26 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: That's true. All the smarts could be centralized in the indexer. But then there's the problem of making sure when someone's browsing CPAN manually (on a regular mirror or on

Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-27 Thread Ovid
Hi all, I'm the mentor (not that he needs one) for brentdax on his Summer of Code project. You can read a brief interview about it at http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/25664 and follow along in his journal at http://use.perl.org/~brentdax/journal/. The problem: it's a Perl 6 Content Management

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-27 Thread Austin Schutz
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:22:16PM -0700, Ovid wrote: Hi all, I'm the mentor (not that he needs one) for brentdax on his Summer of Code project. You can read a brief interview about it at http://use.perl.org/~acme/journal/25664 and follow along in his journal at

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-27 Thread Ovid
--- Austin Schutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =head2 cents Is it a content management system that is built on perl 6, or is it a system for managing perl 6 content? The latter would imply cpan, the former something like sourceforge. It's the former. While sourceforget if a viable

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-27 Thread Ovid
--- Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the former. While sourceforget if a viable resource, sooner or later we need to get the CPAN/Perl6 thing squared aware. squared aware? What the hell is that? *squared away*, damn it. *squared away*. Sheesh. Would someone please come over and break

Re: Perl6 goes where?

2005-07-27 Thread Ken Williams
On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Ovid wrote: --- Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's the former. While sourceforget if a viable resource, sooner or later we need to get the CPAN/Perl6 thing squared aware. squared aware? What the hell is that? *squared away*, damn it. *squared away*.