On Sunday 13 July 2008, Shmuel Fomberg wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > >>> I'm writing a port to PyConstructs. website of the original: > >>> http://construct.wikispaces.com/ > >> > >> I decided to call it Data::ParseBinary. reasonable? > > > > Sounds good. A rose by any other name, etc. > > Well, Parse::Binary is already taken. There are actually a number of > binary struct parser on CPAN, just not quite the same... :-)
I see. :-) Maybe it will become as worse as Config::* ... or hopefully not. > > > Just mention that it was inspired by PyConstruct somewhere visible. > > Of course. Cool. > > > Note that Alan Haggai Alavi could really use it for his Archive::Zip work > > on this grant - > > http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/05/2008q2_grant_proposal_fixing_b.htm > >l so releasing it as soon as possible would be prefarable. > > Well, He should use the original Python version. That's because he is > using it as a point-of-reference, and it's better to use a well tested > package with known ZIP implementation, instead of a new package. Last time I checked PyConstruct did not have any ZIP implementation. And using your port will allow us to possibly use it inside the Archive::Zip test suite. > > > Shlomi Fish (who wonders why so many discussions here have to be about > > "How should I name this module?") > > Because it's a difficult question. (or obvious. depends) And it's the > right place to ask. > OK. But like Shakespeare said "A Rose by any other name will smell just as sweet.". But I guess it's OK. Regards, Shlomi Fish (who released Docmake whose distribution name is http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-XML-DocBook-Builder/ to help avoid namespace proliferation.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://xrl.us/bjn8s I met a guy in the bar, talked to her and she gave me her phone number.
