On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:45:34PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
| On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:01:07AM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
| > This seeks reasonable to me, given that Tk:: and Gtk:: and other GUI
| > toolkits have similar top-level namespaces.
| >
| > (Though I do think it'd be nice to group them all under GUI sometime, if
| > we could ever get all the authors together to do it.)
|
| I know it seems tempting, but what significant value would it _really_
| buy you that the section groupings in the module list don't already provide?
Searchability via m /GUI/ in CPAN.pm
Searchability via search.cpan.org
Searchability of modules which, for some reason or another, are not in
the modules list (eg it hasn't been updated recently).
Easy navigability of a CPAN archive via FTP, or on a CD-ROM.
That's just off the top of my head. How many more do you want me to
come up with?
K.
