Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2008-12-18 às 11:38 +0100, Mark Overmeer escreveu: > In the current state of affairs, CPAN is limited to Perl5 and strongely > entangled by Perl5 install tools. Do we want to have people install > Perl5 on their (maybe small) machine before they can install Perl6 stuff? > Rpm-tools and deb

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Daniel Ruoso (dan...@ruoso.com) [081217 13:19]: > Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > > Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > > >> My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of pa

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: It also allows one source package to generate different binary packages (for instance, having scripts, libs and docs splitted), and makes it easier to do an uninstall, because a "binary"/"installable" package would have a fixed list of files. I agree o

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread B. Estrade
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:19:07AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > > Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > > >> My basic assumption is that there's goin

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > >>My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging > >> system written around 6PAN. > > Please tak

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago: http://www.perlfounda

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: > My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging > system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?DistributionFormat

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 16, at 23:00, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it should be able to model the metadata from a .rpm, a .deb, a CPAN package, or whatev

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 16, at 23:00, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it should be able to model the metadata from a .rpm, a .deb, a CPAN package, or whatever. Then you read the data using a "metadata input

6PAN idea

2008-12-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I've been working on some stuff that's vaguely, tangentially CPAN-related. My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. One thing I've been working on recently is a (Perl 5) object that models package metadata. In theory, it