Peter Scott writes: > I do feel strongly that we need some sort of solution to this so that > Perl 6 is not merely an outstanding framework that leaves all > domain-specific extensions to the end user.
OK. > Can we find a way to make and maintain some recommendations in a way > that people can find them easily from P6 itself ... Maybe what we need > is an editorial team. Build it, and they will come! This isn't something which needs to influence language design -- in the sense that it doesn't need to be sorted before the design can be final and Perl 6 released. It isn't really anything that needs to be agreed by central diktat (remember that search.cpan.org isn't in any way official -- it's 'just' a Cpan mirror which happens to have a web interface that many people find convenient). Nor is it something that needs to be got right the first time, or we need to be confident will last as long as Perl 6. (For example, ActivePerl has been the _de facto_ standard Windows Perl distribution for some time; it's possible that Strawberry Perl in time will take over that, but if so it'll just be because it gets momentum behind it and the community as a whole chooses it, not because somebody named it as such.) Smylers
