Pedro Melo writes: > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:18 PM, sawyer x <xsawy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Pedro Melo <m...@simplicidade.org> wrote: > > > > > * the author can include that module as a dependency on his > > > projects like he does with all the other CPAN dependencies. > > > > > > The second one is the most important to me. Just because it is a > > > module that you might not use, it might be a module that is installed > > > on your system as a direct dependency of other modules I have on CPAN. > > > > That's a terrible thing to do! Please, for the love of all that is > > good and holy, never put any project to depend on a personal > > distribution of your favorite modules. I will most likely refuse to > > use it entirely for that reason alone. Declare what you're using, > > not what you like to have installed! > > huhs?? I'm telling you that I'm reusing modules under A::M::something > on other CPAN distributions. It's not a "personal distribution", I'm > not depending any dist on my Task::BeLike::MELO. I just have small > reuseable modules,
Hi Pedro. If you have a small reusable module which is used by several other Cpan distributions then of course it belongs on Cpan. What I don't understand is why you want to have your username as part of the module's name. Surely it's better to upload it with a name that simply indicates what it does, then your other distributions can use it on that basis -- and perhaps other people will see that, like it, and start using it too? I'd feel wary about using anything which is named with its author's username (except in a situation like Dist::Zilla or BeLike where I'm explicitly trying to be like a particular author), cos that sounds like it's personal to that author. > that I don't think have a proper place on CPAN right now, What do you mean by that? If you aren't sure whether something would be worthwhile, upload it anyway. If necessary write in the Pod that the interface is subject to change and anybody using it should e-mail you to let you know. Cheers Smylers -- New series of TV puzzle show 'Only Connect' (some questions by me) Mondays at 20:30 on BBC4, or iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/onlyconnect
