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From:
Timothy S. Nelson
Date:
June 9, 2009 05:37
Subject:
Re: CPAN -- moving forward
Message ID:
alpine.LRH.1.10.0906092238020.3229@gwalcmai.nelson.org.au
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote:

>> 1) A package format.
>
> This is supposed to be a source format, but different from current model
> used in CPAN, it's pretty clear already that it can't include a "build
> system", like ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Install.
>
> There's already some consensus that this "source package" format should
> describe what it contains, not how it should be built or installed. For
> instance, it should only say something like "in the lib directory
> there's a set of STD Perl 6 modules that don't require any low-level
> integration".

 	Would it be accurate to describe this as specifying where things 
should be installed, but only at a high enough level that it's platform 
independent?

 	Thanks,


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