On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 01:24:29PM -0500, a-mused wrote: > Hi Bill, > > There's no tradition or history within CPAN or PAUSE of ever requiring a > PAUSE ID to not clash with a module. Quite to the contrary .. please see > below.
I don't belive that Bill said that there was any readition, only that he would be uncomfortable with DBI as a username and I have to agree. None of the modules you mention below have quite the status of DBI. Graham. > > PAUSE ID MODULE > ------------ ----------- > URI URI ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > RAM DBD::RAM ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > RAM AnyData::Storage::RAM ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this > module > RDF RDF::Notation3 ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > RDF RDF::Service ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > PING Net::Ping ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > NI-S NIS::DBM ** PAUSE ID isn't author of this module > ...... > I'm stopping after a casual perusal of the authors tree from Z to N. > > Thanks~ > -dsp (author ID: DPARIS) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Ingerson) writes: > >> On 08/02/02 13:58 -0000, DataBuilt PAUSE wrote: > >> > Name: DataBuilt, Inc > >> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > Requested PAUSE ID: DBI > >[...] > >> DataBuilt Inc (DBI) is a current hotbed of Perl activity and looks to > >> continue to be for some time.[...] > > > I think that this may all be true, but I'm uncomfortable with the user > > ID "DBI". It is too likely to be confused with DBI.pm. The user ID > > "DATABUILT" would be better, IMHO. > > > > --Bill. > > >
