The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: News::yEnc
DSLIP: adpOp
description: yEnc decoder, w/database of file parts
userid: SWMCD (Steven McDougall)
chapterid: 19 (Mail_and_Usenet_News)
communities:
comp.land.perl.modules, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
similar:
rationale:
yEnc is a new encoding format for transporting binary data in
nominally ASCII channels, such as usenet. It is an alternative to
uuencoding.
Although there are concerns about the architecture of yEnc (see,
for example, http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/yenc.html), it is
now in widespread use in usenet binary groups. I need to decode
these postings, so I wrote a module to do it.
The yEnc format was developed for encoding usenet binaries, and
that is currently its most common use. This suggests a module name
of
News::yEnc.
An alternative would be to make yEnc:: a top-level name, like
MIME:: but... - yEnc isn't as big as MIME - The yEnc format will
likely stay confined to usenet
Also, a top-level yEnc:: module namespace violates CPAN
capitalization conventions, while a YEnc:: namespace is unaesthetic.
OTOH, a top-level yEnc:: namespace allows for both yEnc::Decoder
and yEnc::Encoder, when someone gets around to writing one. If we
put them all under News::, then we either have 3-level names, like
News::yEnc::Decode News::yEnc::Encode
or compound words in the module names
News::yEncDecode News::yEncEncode
which is a bit of a mouthfull.
enteredby: SWMCD (Steven McDougall)
enteredon: Thu Nov 7 16:38:17 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
News::
::yEnc adpOp yEnc decoder, w/database of file parts SWMCD
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