On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:54:51AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > 29. Language > > Proposal: > > Perl 6 is coming. Some code in Perl 6 is already being uploaded to the > CPAN. A new "language" field is an important part of the structure we need > to allow Perl 6 to reuse the existing CPAN rather than to try to reinvent > the whole thing. My recommendation would be that this be an optional field > with an implicit value of 'perl5' --Jesse
While perl6 is arguably a different language from perl5, isn't perl5.10 arguably a different language from perl5.0? I don't object to a language field, but I think minimum version numbers, no matter how major, belong elsewhere. Tim.
