On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: >> +When it happens that the same module is available from more than one >> +authority, and the desired authority is not specified by the C<use>, >> +the version lineage that was created first wins, unless overridden by >> +local policy or by official abandonment by the original authority (as >> +determined either by the author or by community consensus in case the >> +author is no longer available or widely regarded as uncooperative). >> +An officially abandoned lineage will be selected only if it is the >> +only available lineage of locally installed modules. >> + >> +Once the authority is selected, then and only then is any version >> +selection done; the version specification is ignored until the >> +authority is selected. This implies that all official modules record >> +permanently when they were first installed in the official library, >> +and this creation date is considered immutable. >> + >> For wildcards any valid smartmatch selector works: >> use Dog:ver(v1.2.1 | v1.3.4):auth(/:i jrandom/); > > So now you've explicitly stated what I implicitly (or maybe explicitly) > thought before, in that version numbers are always subordinate to > authorities, and only make sense in the context of an authority, though > an explicit authority doesn't have to be declared in user code. > > I propose that the canonical order of entity long names be altered so > that the :auth always comes first, and :ver second, when both are used. > > For example: > > use Dog:auth(/:i jrandom/):ver(v1.2.1 | v1.3.4); > > The documentation should be in that order, not the other order. Then I > think the syntax better corresponds to the actual interpretation, > conceptually where each new trait (or trait-looking thing) is interpreted > in the context of those before it. And I don't just mean example code, > but explanation order too.
I agree, and since you've got a pugs commit bit, feel free to fix it if I don't get to it. I've got about three other fundamental design issues distracting me at the moment, alas... Larry
