On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 05:47:51PM +0000, 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 trying to use
> identically named Perl 5 modules. If a Perl 6 DBI module exists, I
> posit that it would not be a good thing if this was what the CPAN or
> CPANPLUS modules automatically down load, nor if that's what the Cpan
> Search website presents as being the most recent version of DBI.
>
Yeah.. and there will be cases where people forget to require one
way or the other.
Consider this - if having perl 6 modules mixed in with 5 is no
problem, it shouldn't be that hard to merge them. If it _is_ a problem,
it could be a real pain to separate them, unless there is a simple mechanism
which explicitly guarantees any given module is compatible one way or the
other. Require might work if you could force people to do it.
Austin
