CMSP 29. Language

CMSP 29. Language

	David Golden
	Oct 10, 2009 at 10:59 am

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:54:51]

29. Language

Branch available: http://github.com/rjbs/cpan-meta-spec/commits/29-language

Good start. I'd like to see a list of "known" names, even if just
"perl5" and "perl6"and some explanation as to why the field exists
(i.e. people uploading perl6 modules to CPAN)

David

Search Discussions

Discussion Posts

Ricardo Signes: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:54:51] Branch available: http://github.com/rjbs/cpan-meta-spec/commits/29-language -- rjbs

Follow ups

Zefram: We certainly need something in this direction. We should be clear that each language has its own namespace for modules. We should also have a way to specify language as part of a dependency name, to manage cross-language dependencies. Doing those suggests that language could be consistently stated in META as part of the module name, rather than needing a separate field. -zefram
David Golden: I think that's out of scope for this change. We need to fix limitations of current META, not solve the broader CP6AN problem. -David
Ruslan Zakirov: Hello, As we have "requires:perl:5.xxx" then may be it's better to use "language: perl" and describe in the spec that in requirements there may be record matching language name that defines minimal version for the language. Something like that. -- Best regards, Ruslan.

Related Discussions

Re: CMSP 29. Language
CMSP 02. Formally switch to "YAML Tiny"
CMSP -- prerequisites omnibus
Re: CMSP 13. Add a post_depends set
Re: CMSP 15. Add development_requires
Re: CMSP 08. Extensibly Group Prereqs
CMSP -- updated summary of all proposals
CMSP -- summary of discussion so far
CMSP 34. Formally reserve keys for private 'in-house' use
CMSP 32. Steal from other package meta specs

Discussion Navigation

view	thread \| post
posts	‹ prev \| 10 of 15 \| next ›

Discussion Overview

group	cpan-workers @
categories	perl
posted	Oct 9, '09 at 11:55a
active	Oct 12, '09 at 5:19a
posts	15
users	9
website	cpan.org

font	variable	Hotkey: f
user style	avatars	Hotkey: a

CMSP 29. Language

Search Discussions

Discussion Posts

Related Discussions

9 users in discussion