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Transition of CPAN to Perl6 ? Peter Billam 06-28-2006
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Posted by Peter Billam on June 28, 2006, 11:26 pm
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Greetings. What's intended to happene to all the Perl5 CPAN modules ?
Will there be big push for authors to translate their stuff into Perl6 ?
Can the translation be automated ?
In fact will it be done automatically anyway ?
Or is the intention to prune out some less
approved modules and reorganise the namespace ?

(Hope these aren't FAQs somewhere... :-) )

Regards, Peter

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Posted by John Bokma on June 29, 2006, 2:13 am
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> approved modules and reorganise the namespace ?

The latter sounds very interesting, but is probably a huge undertaking.

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Posted by Thomas Wittek on June 29, 2006, 5:11 am
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Peter Billam schrieb:
> Greetings. What's intended to happene to all the Perl5 CPAN modules ?
> Will there be big push for authors to translate their stuff into Perl6 ?

You will be able to use Perl5 modules within Perl6:

use perl5:Some::Module;

But there are also plans for a "cpan6", which will allow modules of
several programming language (Perl5, Perl6, JavaScript, ...) to be hosted:
http://www.birmingham2006.com/cgi-bin/yapc.pl?act=talk-item&talkid=51

-Thomas

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