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From:
Wayland
Date:
May 30, 2009 00:50
Subject:
Re: New CPAN
Message ID:
alpine.LRH.1.10.0905301225470.3292@gwalcmai.nelson.org.au
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Mark Overmeer wrote:
>> And the next consideration: when we have a piece of software which
>> administers Perl5 or Perl6 or Nokia.bin or Elf. Why stop there?
>> What is the overlap? It is basically all just some blob of data with
>> some associated meta-data to search and retreive the blobs. It is only
>> the client side install tool which looks into the content of the package.
>> Why not allow pure pod releases? A small step to documents in any other
>> format. Why not share holiday pictures? Also just a blob of data with
>> some meta-data.
>
> Your idea of using CPAN to share holiday pictures is one of the things that
> really turned me off from your CPAN6 proposal. I do want this to be about
> Perl, you don't, and that's a point where we differ. In my examples,
> Nokia.bin is so that mobile users don't have to compile software on their
> tiny CPUs. I can see merit in adding Ruby modules because in a new Parrot
> world, there is real opportunity for Perl and Ruby to share libraries with
> each other (e.g. Perl on Rails). But when you start talking about sharing
> holiday pictures, you have completely left the Perl realm and I am completely
> turned off.
Allow me to point something out. He wants to write a freely available
software package that can share data, and is useful for the Perl6 environment.
He's not suggesting that we have holiday photos on CPAN-the-network, simply
that the software not care whether the data inside it is a package or not,
just whether it has metadata. If you don't like the "holiday photos"
examples, just skim over them :). It's only 5 or so words to skip :).
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