[Melbourne-pm] our $AUTHORITY = 'cpan:STEVAN';

[Timothy S. Nelson]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Rick Measham wrote:

> Leigh Sharpe wrote:
>> G'day Daniel, This page:
>> http://somethingdoug.com/thoughts/2008/12/31/our-authority/
>
> Ahh, that's cool!
>
> I was saying a few months back (after Alec's Git talk) that it would be nice 
> to replace CPAN with /git(hub)?/. Then I can fork someone's Foo::Bar and use 
> it, and allow it to be used, without the confusion that it would cause if I 
> put a second Foo::Bar on CPAN.
>
> possibly something like:
>   use Foo::Bar:auth<github:RICKM> 9813
> (where 9813 is the revision number used as a $VERSION)
>
> I've not been a part of any of this discussion and had no idea about this 
> auth stuff or any of it so may be totally off base. Forgive me :-D

 	The p6l (perl6-language) list is the appropriate forum for that sort 
of idea.  There's been a lot of discussion of CPAN-related stuff, but not much 
in the way of conclusions.

 	Part of the problem has been that the term "CPAN" refers to at least 3 
different things.  See http://perlcabal.org/syn/S22.html#Terminology_and_Scope 
for information.

 	HTH,

 	:)


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