On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:52:51PM -0500, Paul Boin wrote: > I'm just about to finish up a module that someone might find useful. > > It emulates two utilities found on IBM Mainframes, IEBUPDTE and > IEBPTPCH. For a general discussion, lets just say that these two > utilities are similar to tar/untar. I wrote them so that I can > bundle local files to upload, and so that I can un-bundle files > downloaded from the mainframe. > > If I were to start fresh, I'd like OS390::IEBUtils. > > A bit of history: IBM's OS has gone through many names, the three > most recent are 'MVS', 'OS/390', and 'z/OS', so it's a little tricky > using the OS name as an identifier. The two most closely related > existing modules are MVS::VBFile and Convert::OS390. What's a little > bit unusual is that this code would only be of interest to a > mainframer, but it's designed to run on a PC. > > Your thoughts are appreciated. I've got a good bit of work in the > modules, and don't want to gum up the works with an ineffective or > misleading name.
If the utilities are archivers, would it work to put them in the Archive:: top level namespace, alongside Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip ? Nicholas Clark
