On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 03:01:16PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > 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.
At your service.
> 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.
Sure. If you can't handle this barrier then I'm pretty skeptical about
the longevity of your project. After all, it's not like I'm a fire
breathing dragon. Pudge on the other hand... ;-)
> 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...
That's why I suggested AXKIT. Isn't AXKIT two sylables?
Apache::AXKIT::...
Apache::XML::Kit::...
Hm.
> So I'm back to "naming things" again... *sigh*
Oh, don't get all droopy. Naming stuff is fun.
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