On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> wrote: > David Golden wrote: >>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 > > We certainly need something in this direction. We should be clear > that each language has its own namespace for modules. We should also > have a way to specify language as part of a dependency name, to manage > cross-language dependencies. Doing those suggests that language could > be consistently stated in META as part of the module name, rather than > needing a separate field.
I think that's out of scope for this change. We need to fix limitations of current META, not solve the broader CP6AN problem. -David
