On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 10:05:48AM -0800, Benjamin Trott wrote:
> > There is already a Net::SSH module on CPAN. Can you provide a quick
> > summary of the differences between this and your module?
>
> The current Net::SSH module on CPAN is a wrapper around the ssh command line
> client.
>
> Mine is an actual Perl implementation of the SSH protocol.
>
> I've spoken w/ the author of the current Net::SSH (and queried the modules
> list previously about the matter), and we've agreed that the best thing to
> do would be to rename his current Net::SSH to something like
> Net::SSH::system, then to replace Net::SSH itself with an interface to each
> of our modules, to be used something like:
>
> use Net::SSH mode => 'perl';
>
> This would load everything necessary for my Net::SSH::perl implementation,
> and if you then did
>
> my $ssh = Net::SSH->new('host');
>
> you'd open an SSH connection using Net::SSH::perl.
Perl informally reserves lower-cased package names. I would suggest
Net::SSH::Perl and Net::SSH::System.
Peace,
Kurt
