On Mon, 1 May 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 02:40:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 May 2000, Chris Nandor wrote:
> > > 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:
> >
> > [A-Z]{1,4}
> >
> > Phew - that's an awful lot of acronyms ;-)
>
> Look, we're not suggesting that you to rename it to:
>
> Apache::XML::DeliveryToolkit
>
> Even so, are we being too picky?
Its a hard problem (I think someone said the hardest problem left in
computer science is naming things). I don't know the right answer either -
so your help is useful.
I do see it as a slight barrier to entry that you
can't come up with a new application (that isn't necessarily a module - I
don't particularly consider AXDTK to be a module - it's more of an
application) and just upload it to CPAN. Of course you can, without
conferring with [EMAIL PROTECTED] - and CPAN will just accept it. So I
could potentially just ignore you ;-) Seriously though, I think I might
rename it anyway - 5 sylables is almost instant death for a cool
project. So I'm trying to reduce it to 2... So I'm back to "naming
things" again... *sigh*
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