Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-07-30 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru writes: The number of modules available to proto has grown considerably. I am not aware that there is a convenient way of obtaining a short description about each module, other than just the name? Just an opinion: imho every effort should go towards

Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-07-30 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:27, Steffen Schwigon s...@renormalist.net wrote: Just an opinion: imho every effort should go towards integrating CPAN in any way. Perl without CPAN feels like Kung-Fu on stack-heel shoe. Maybe any of those META2.0, cpanminus, CPAN::Packager, CPAN::Dpendency,

Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-07-30 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 07/30/2010 01:27 PM, Steffen Schwigon wrote: Richard Hainsworthrich...@rusrating.ru writes: The number of modules available to proto has grown considerably. I am not aware that there is a convenient way of obtaining a short description about each module, other than just the name?

Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-07-30 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2010-30-07 at 16:08 +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: All I am suggesting is that the directories containing modules also contain a METADATA file with some standard items, and that this metadata is required for a module that is registered. Even if there is a CPAN system, the

Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-07-30 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 04:08:49PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: On 07/30/2010 01:27 PM, Steffen Schwigon wrote: Richard Hainsworthrich...@rusrating.ru writes: I am not aware that there is a convenient way of obtaining a short description about each module, other than just the name?