Re: Module Library - aka CPAN

2009-05-31 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Dont think this is workable. If the local environment is non-standard, requiring your own solution, then where would you store the binary? And how would you inform future users sufficiently about the local environment for them to access the binary. Besides for most binaries, it is not really a

Re: Module Library - aka CPAN

2009-05-31 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Richard Hainsworth richard-at-rusrating.ru |Perl 6| wrote: Once a module has been decided on, you look to see if there is a binary that matches your internal environment. If not, you have to roll your own from source. Why not have it generate the binary for you, and safe it for future use

Module Library - aka CPAN

2009-05-31 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Before joining in the previous CPAN threads, here are some personal wish lists regarding what the perl6 version of CPAN should do. But in order to get some distance from CPAN, I want to call it the Module Library system. Some of the debate threads impact on the internal software environment, an