Raku Programming Language Ecosystem Archive

The Raku Programming Language Ecosystem Archive (REA for short) attempts to keep a copy of any distribution that has ever been released into the Raku ecosystem.

Synopsis

Because you may (and should) specify your module dependencies with version (and possibly with authority and api version), you are guaranteed that an application will continue to run, even though its dependencies may have gotten updated (with a higher version number, or with a different authority).

This however opens up a possible problem when trying to install an application from scratch, and a particular version of a dependency is no longer available in the "live" ecosystem. In such a case, one should be able to download and install the dependency from this repository, or from any server front-end to this repository.

Note on CPAN ecosystem

Because the CPAN ecosystem only checked on author and module name and version, and not on the :auth of the module, it is happened that authors uploaded modules with an :auth different from the expected :auth<cpan:AUTHOR> identity. This has been corrected in this archive.

Updating

This repository is expected to be updated using the Ecosystem::Archive::Update module.

Directory structure

META.json
archive
  |- ...
  |- M
     |- ...
     |- Module::Name
         |- ...
         |- Module::Name:ver<0.0.1>:auth<foo:BAR>:api<1>.tar.gz
         |- Module::Name:ver<0.0.2>:auth<foo:BAR>:api<1>.tar.gz
         |- Module::Name:ver<0.0.3>:auth<zef:bar>:api<1>.tar.gz
         |- ...
     |- ...
  |- ...
meta
  |- ...
  |- M
     |- ...
     |- Module::Name
         |- Module::Name:ver<0.0.1>:auth:<github:baz>:api<1>.json
         |- Module::Name:ver<0.0.2>:auth:<github:baz>:api<1>.json
         |- ...
     |- ...
  |- ...