perl6 is a version of perl5
I know this is a contentious issue but, with all dure respect, I disagree. I believe that's a short-sighted viewpoint that has some value in the short term but is likely to lead us to make decisions...
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FWIW I thought the now-deleted 'language' key in META 2.0 sidestepped this issue nicely. It placed that info on the top level rather than in the bit that requires a given perl version. Perl 6 isn't...
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# from Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason # on Thursday 15 April 2010 15:48: Indeed. It is a completely different language. For that reason, I think the file extension distinction on the distribution package is a...
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The language key let you declare the language of the package itself. However, that same language concept did not extend to the dependency specification, which is only in terms of Perl 5 namespaces. The...
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All you need to support any language is to: 1. Allow language => or something like it 2. Allow extensions to the format. META 2.0 does this via its X_* keys. Before ^1 was removed from the spec I...
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That's not the problem. The problem is how do you deal with multi-language dependencies in the requires: (et al) parts of the META.yml. Adam K On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason...
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