April 2010

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

I'm writing up my notes from an extensive IRC conversation with Jesse Vincent. I offered to post it to cpan-workers for feedback. He and I agree that there are significant benefits to the community ...

David Golden
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Apr 16, 2010 at 6:57 am
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Why are versions restricted to 999?

Elliot just alerted me to this bit of the v2 spec. http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.101091/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Version_Formats Dotted-integer versions "All components after the first ...

Michael G Schwern
Apr 19, 2010 at 11:59 am
Apr 21, 2010 at 12:42 pm
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Meta v2 missing information on how to compare versions

http://search.cpan.org/~dagolden/CPAN-Meta-2.101091/lib/CPAN/Meta/Spec.pm#Comparing_Version_Numbers is an insufficient description about how to compare version numbers. The spec should not depend on ...

Michael G Schwern
Apr 19, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Apr 20, 2010 at 12:27 am
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Re: Trimming the CPAN - "Automatic Purging"

so don't. How much reengineering would be needed to keep CPAN in a database instead of a file system?

David Nicol
Apr 1, 2010 at 4:39 am
Apr 5, 2010 at 4:24 pm
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Distributing the CPAN

Random thoughts... * If you squint a little you can view git as a database with excellent replication support. * cpanminus already supports installing from a git repo. * For backwards compatibility a ...

Tim Bunce
Apr 1, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Apr 2, 2010 at 3:08 pm
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perl6 is a version of perl5

I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree. I believe that's a short-sighted viewpoint that has some value in the short term but is likely to lead us to make decisions ...

Tim Bunce
Apr 15, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Apr 16, 2010 at 1:56 am
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Re: Applications on CPAN

# from David Nicol (on module-authors) on Sunday 18 April 2010 13:14: This prompted me to dust off an old unfinished thread: It seems like there should be some way to say e.g. "install bin/ack" or ...

Eric Wilhelm
Apr 19, 2010 at 6:15 am
Apr 20, 2010 at 6:05 pm
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Proposed CPAN::Meta patch: Version comparison, conversion, 999 problems

I've gone ahead and patched up a copy of the spec to resolve the version issues I've been going on about (David, I wouldn't expect you to do the work after you've just did all the work to mint the ...

Michael G Schwern
Apr 21, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Apr 21, 2010 at 3:28 pm
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CPAN Meta Spec Version 2 released

Dear CPAN authors: It is with great pleasure that we present you with the release of the CPAN Meta Spec version 2. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPAN::Meta::Spec This document specifies the format ...

David Golden
Apr 19, 2010 at 10:55 am
Apr 19, 2010 at 10:55 am
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Ownership on the CPAN

Umm, yes. That needs fixing. For distributions that contain unauthorised modules I think the cpan-git-mirror code should take the 'strict' approach: ignore the distro until the permissions have been ...

Tim Bunce
Apr 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Apr 3, 2010 at 12:44 pm