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jdv s blog skip to main skip to sidebar jdv s blog perl programming friday october 9 2015 perl6 and cpan metacpan status as of 2015 10 09 metacpan like the rest of cpan was built assuming the sole context of perl5 which is cool until we want to use it for perl6 and avoid the troubles associated with different namespaces dist mgmt etc to largely avoid and more easily handle these issues for metacpan it s been suggested that we have separate instances the existing perl5 instance only needs to be changed to ignore perl6 distributions there has already been some breakage because it didn t ignore a perl6 dist of mine which exists in the perl5 world and the new perl6 instance will do just the opposite and only look at perl6 distributions in contrast and relatedly on cpan we ve designated a special spot for perl6 distributions in order to keep them separate from the perl5 dists this reserved place is a perl6 subdir in an author s dir author id perl6 any dists in or under that spot on the fs will be considered a perl6 dist valid or invalid so this is where the perl6 metacpan will look and the perl5 instance will not current development is being done on these temporary branches https github com jdv metacpan web https github com jdv cpan api and the main dev instance is running on hack p6c org the web end is at http hack p6c org 5001 and the api is at http hack p6c org 5000 so far the idea has been to iterate on the aforementioned branches and instance until we have something that works sufficiently well at that point we ll tidy up the branches and submit them for merging shortly after that time the hope is that we ll be able to stand up the official perl6 instance the list of requirements for being adequately cooked is track perl6 cpan dists and ignore perl5 dists import a perl6 distribution index a perl6 distribution for search render pod6 documentation do perl6 syntax highlighting all of these have been hacked in and are at various degrees of completeness next up is testing and fixing bugs until nothing major is left to that end i ve recently loaded up the dev instance with all the distributions from modules perl6 org the dist files were generated very hackily with https github com jdv cpan api blob master test_p6_eco_to_p6_cpan pl i also just loaded them all under one user mine for simplicity that load looks like it has problems of its own as well as revealing a bunch of issues so in the coming days i hope to get that all sorted out posted by jdv at 7 04 am no comments labels perl6 thursday october 8 2015 perl6 and cpan in the perl5 world just in case anyone is unaware cpan is a major factor its basically the hub of the perl5 world what i am referring to here as cpan is not just the mirrored collection of 32k distributions its the ecosystem that s built up around that collection this ecosystem has many parts some more important than others depending on who you talk to but the most important parts to me are the mirrored distribution collection all the perl5 modules in one place pause pause perl org module upload and mgmt services metacpan metacpan org online search docs and other services cpan testers http cpantesters org cpan smoking module installers perl5 has cpanm and others perl6 has panda and others these are the 5 aspects of cpan that i d like to see happen for perl6 one way to get that would be to write the whole thing from scratch in perl6 while it may sound cool in some sort of dogfoody and or bootstrappy kind of way to some it sounds like a lot of work to me and we re a bit strapped for developer resources another way would be to add support for perl6 to the existing cpan bits the hope there being primarily that it d be a lot less work the latter approach is what i ve been working on lately and if we want to refactor ourselves off the perl5 bits in the future we can take our time doing it later at this time we have basic pause support a metacpan prototype so we can publish perl6 distributions to cpan and search that collection well sort of on that last bit the metacpan prototype instance is not currently tracking cpan its actually been loaded up with perl6 distributions from the perl6 module ecosystem modules perl6 org for testing but hopefully soon we ll have an official perl6 metacpan instance separate from the perl5 instance that will track cpan s perl6 content as it should what we need next is completion of basic metacpan perl6 support at least one perl6 module installer to support cpan probably panda perl6 integration with cpan testers if anyone is interested in working on any of this stuff please stop by perl6 on freenode if nobody else is able to help you i ll jdv79 do my best posted by jdv at 1 31 pm 3 comments labels perl6 thursday may 14 2009 test able v0 07 the last time i posted about test able it was about the 0 05 release version 0 07 just made it out the door some of the more interesting changes since 0 05 are more documentation added exception handling added test able role of course the changelog has more i ll just say a few things about the exception handling the design goal was to try to capture the few broad and common usage patterns while still having the ability to be more specific when desired the broad so there are three exception handling modes the default of which is to die as usual the other two offer a way to silently ignore yet record exceptions and one of them affords a more sane way to cleanup after a disaster the specific since all exceptions are stored when silently ignoring them anything can observe and react to them also test able fatalexception as the name might hint at provides a way to really die when all other exceptions would be rendered non fatal this is all documented in test able role meta class under on_method_exception and method_exceptions it might help to look at the exception tests as well posted by jdv at 9 00 am 1 comment labels perl home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2015 2 october 2 perl6 and cpan metacpan 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