On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Mark Overmeer wrote:
* Timothy S. Nelson (wayl...@wayland.id.au) [081220 03:45]:
Btw, looks like I was wrong about the terminology of
CPAN6/6PAN/whatever. See link below for details (the new Terminology
section).
http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/Spec/S22-package-format.pod
Just as an explanatory note, I used ???A and ???B as placeholders
until someone comes up with a name for them. I don't want to name them; I
want to leave the naming of them up to the people who are actually going to
implement them.
I do not understand the relevance of ???A: just abstract away the
actual distribution mechanism. FTP or CD is also not mentioned
as possible transporters, so why is that for CPAN6 important?
I'm not sure I understand your point here; either I misunderstand what
you're getting at, or you've misunderstood what I'm getting at. I'll expand
on what I mean by ???A in hopes that this will help clarify things.
The current (Perl5) CPAN is, as far as I know, includes:
- The custom software that runs cpan.org
- The hardware/OS that runs it
- The code that is stored there (ie. modules and stuff)
I'm assuming that your CPAN6 software is going to replace the software
that runs CPAN, but I'm assuming that the replacement for the other two items
listed above is going to be a separate entry, that I've designated with the
placeholder ???A until such time as someone sets up a website and installs
your CPAN6 software, and offers to let people upload stuff to it.
For ???B. In the current set-up, you use CPAN.pm to download, and then
install. The 'cpan' script is a wrapper around CPAN.pm. CPAN.pm starts
the install tool. A more convient structure would be to have an user
application (maybe the same 'cpan' script), which calls some download
backend to retreive the distribution and then calls the right install
tool per distribution. I would say: ???B is "cpan-NG"
That would be one way of labelling it. I prefer to leave that
labelling up to the people who will actually be writing the software. For all
I know, they might prefer to begin with a direct port of CPANPLUS, and work
from there.
HTH,
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