* jerry gay (jerry....@gmail.com) [081218 14:01]:
> > If you understand my explanation of CPAN6, then you certainly must be
> > ware that 6PAN and CPAN6 have nothing to do with each other. Please do
> > not use them in combination. It is as silly as saying TCP/Linux
> there's a difference? that was never clear to me (but i haven't read
> any docs). at best, they are incredibly, confusingly, similarly named.
Well, 6PAN is about downloading the right Perl6 module and installing it.
Like Perl5s CPAN.pm module in combination with MakeMaker or Module::Build,
interpreting the content of the released packages. It defines how authors
have to release Perl6 material so end-user can install and use them.
CPAN6 is a distribution network; the PAUSE uploader, CPAN package indexer
and CPAN ftp-server network (ftp.cpan.org).
CPAN6 can be used to distribute any kind of data: perl5 distributions,
6pan distributions, rpms, word documents, and photo's... as long as
there is some meta-data available to distinguish two seperate releases.
It is about upload and download with access rules, name and version
label restrictions, namespace restrictions, data integrety, distributed
search, redundant servers, release-under-embargo, etc etc.
In general: CPAN6 implements everything you need to create data
collections for any purpose. Kind of very smart network directory.
AFAIK, there is no comparible project on the moment.
In "CPAN" name is used for different things, so that has caused this
inconvenient name look-alike.
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MarkOv
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