On Mon, 1 May 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 8.43 -0400 2000.05.01, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> >On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:10:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> The Apache XML Delivery Toolkit is a new set of modules designed for
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> This is a request for the AXDTK::* namespace. I would like to use this
> >> namespace rather than continue to fill up the already over-used Apache::*
> >> namespace. AXDTK intends to implement many stylesheet languages and each
> >> one will fill another name, so using Apache::* is really not an
> >> option. Apache::AXDTK::* is one alternative, but I think the depth and the
> >> utility of this package deserves its own namespace.
> >
> >For what it's worth, I'd favor AXKIT over AXDTK.
>
> I don't see much difference between the two.
>
> I think I'd prefer Apache::XML::* or something. I do not like cryptic
> top-level names, and I do not like acronyms for top-level names (unless
> they are widely known, standards, etc.). FWIW, that wouldn't mean needing
> to change the name of the mailing list, and fixing the modules and docs is
> almost as easy as a global one-liner. :-)
Right, fixing it is always possible (except the module is already in use -
so that's another issue). However lets take a look at CPAN's root
directory:
ARS
ACE
B
BBDB
BnP
CIPP
Cdk
Cz
DCE
DWH_File
ERG
FFI
LSF
LWP
MOP
NNML
PDL
POE
PV
Sx
WDDX
Phew - that's an awful lot of acronyms ;-)
I know I'm stretching this a bit - the above is meant humorously, and I
realise that a lot of the above will have been uploaded without a request
to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but AXDTK is more of a product, than something that
should be under the Apache::XML::* namespace. I guess that's my opinion,
anyway.
As for being "widely known, standards, etc", well I hope to make the first
one of those a reality in the near future with a number of articles in
various publications. That's how a lot of the above got to be "widely
known" too. Although some of the above are just simply named badly! ;-)
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