On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Graham Barr wrote:
Perl 6 is coming. Some code in Perl 6 is already being uploaded to
the
CPAN. A new "language" field is an important part of the
structure we need
to allow Perl 6 to reuse the existing CPAN rather than to try to
reinvent
the whole thing. My recommendation would be that this be an
optional field
with an implicit value of 'perl5' --Jesse
Strongly agreed.Perl 6 is coming. Some code in Perl 6 is already being uploaded to
the
CPAN. A new "language" field is an important part of the
structure we need
to allow Perl 6 to reuse the existing CPAN rather than to try to
reinvent
the whole thing. My recommendation would be that this be an
optional field
with an implicit value of 'perl5' --Jesse