On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Steffen Mueller <nj88ud...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > 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 > > I'm very strongly opposed to the implicit value at least. We can not trust > that the perl6 tools (and most importantly the humans using them) will > always DTRT. A wrongly indexed package in a different language can cause a > fair bit of mayhem. Instead, we should make this mandatory. Remember that > we're inventing a new spec. We can make things mandatory if necessary.
Agreed. If the point of this is to identify perl5 vs perl6 stuff that slips on CPAN, then defaulting to 'perl5' does't help. The perl5 toolchain can fill in the mandatory part for us, so authors won't have to bother.
