Daniel Sockwell

I like this proposal but **only if** we can seriously commit to a _much_ more rapid release cadence for language versions. If we release a new language version, say, every...

Is the idea for `CURL` to _replace_ `CURI` entirely, or would `CURI` still be available for situations where `CURL` won't work? I ask because of the second drawback you mentioned:...

> Something else worth mentioning is that unicode module names can be used with CURL; it's only unicode file names that CURL doesn't support. That kind of makes it _more_...

IMO, the supporting Unicode filenames is pretty key to meaningfully supporting Unicode module names and, in turn, supporting Unicode module names is a core goal of Raku's whole approach to...

One preliminary response, and then something that gets more at the heart of the issue. First, on the specific point: > how would someone do this for html and javascript...

> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but to clarify I'm talking about with an installed distribution. The files don't exist with their original file names, so .canonpath isn't going to be useful...

> To install a distribution (that isn't already on the file system) you download a single file in some way (tar file, git, etc). No, to install a distribution **I**...

> I want to point my reverse proxy at a directory (potentially of an installed distribution's resource directory) and have it serve the files there under their original names (since...

> Behind the scenes this downloads a tar file, uses git, or downloads that distribution in some way. Yeah, I get that of course (hence the grin). What I was...

> Because inside of html like `resources/mypage.html` you might do something like `` in the HTML file. True, that would require the distribution author to introspect enough to generate that...