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Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN

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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
April 14, 2010 18:59
Subject:
Re: How to have Perl 5 and Perl 6 cohabitate nicely on CPAN
Message ID:
20100415015932.GA5084@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:53:45PM -0400, David Golden wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Adam Kennedy <adam@ali.as> wrote:
> > I've been meaning to propose for a while that for CPAN Perl 5 we drop
> > support for everything other than tar.gz (we can talk about the need
> > for zip files later) and encourage a switch to something like
> >
> > D/DA/DAGOLDEN/Foo-Bar-1.23.cpan
> 
> +1 (reserving the option to bikeshed about the extension)


-1 

Forcing an extension makes all sorts of tools that previously "just
worked" with a tarball suddenly start to fail.

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