--- 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 wherever) > that they don't accidentally download perl6 modules when they meant > to > download perl5 modules. CPAN(PLUS)? may use only the index files, > but > people's brains don't. Because we still put "require 6" in Build.PL and their "perl Build.PL" chokes and they see pretty quickly what's going on (we hope.) Then at least there's a chance of them figuring out how to resolve the problem. So far, putting stuff in the indexer is the best idea I've heard. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. Web Programming with Perl -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
