Re: 6PAN (was: Half measures all round)

[raptor]

|On 6/4/02 12:22 PM, David Wheeler wrote:
|> I think that if we can agree to forego backwards compatibility, we might
|> also be in a better position to set up a CP6AN with much better quality
|> control. All of the most important modules will be ported very quickly
|> (e.g., the DBI), and a lot of the cruft will be left to die (at least from
|> the Perl 6 perspective).
|
|Speaking of "CPAN for Perl 6" (or "CP6AN", or "6PAN"), what's the status of
|this effort?  Do we even have a vague idea of the requirements?  Or does
|everyone think CPAN (and module distribution/installation in general) as it
|exists now it pretty much okay, and just needs some tweaks to work with Perl
|6 code?  I really hope that's not the case! :)

]- I think there is CPANTS initiative underway which may be will solve some of 
]problems of the current CPAN... there was even a write-up on www.perl.com about it ...