Is there a working CPAN/CPAN6 like project for perl6?

Question

Im playing around with perl6 lately and was searching for a project similar to cpan. I found cpan6 but i think there is no perl6 code yet.

So im looking for some alternative that does not necessarily aim to be a long term solution but is capable to maintain modules and is written in perl6.

As rakudo development goes it might be possible to create more complex perl6 code soon.

Answer 1

Markov owns cpan6.org and worked on-and-off for some years on it. Most people I've talked don't regard this project well for various reasons. Most existing Perl6 code lives somewhere else.

There's been talk on cpan-workers to simply extend the archive structure in some canonical way to make it more suitable for other languages.

You already can publish Perl6 code on CPAN if you create shims for the existing Perl5 based infrastructure, see Perl6-Conf as an example.

Answer 2

http://proto.perl6.org/ is the currently working prototype, an alternative is being worked on (see the 'pls' branch of http://github.com/masak/proto/).

Answer 3

If you want a command line utility you'll want to use neutro until they finish pls. This will query modules available on the Perl6 website. It comes with the latest version of Rakudo * and is very simple to use.