Dear Gentlemen, I am very grateful for your contributing to making the world a better place (you have for me) and I thank you most sincerely.
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:06:17AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:56:02PM -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote: > > >Please would you comment on the use of the namespace 'Nagios' for Perl > > >modules related to the Nagios (http://www.Nagios.ORG/) availability > > >monitoring system. > > > > Can't we have this be under some existing top-level category > > (Net::Nagios...)? I know that this principle hasn't been consistently > > applied, but I do like to discourage people from creating new top-level > > things when it's avoidable. > > Where there's a set of modules closely related to some 'thing' with > a well estabished and non-ambiguous 'brand name', then creating a > new namespace for it is okay. > > A Nagios:: namespace seems fine to me. > > Tim. Sys::Nagios or Nagios:: are fine with me - for my pathetic doodling, probably Rid::The::Earth::of::This would be a better choice. Please let me know what you decide. Yours sincerely. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stanley Hopcroft ------------------------------------------------------------------------ '...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...' from Meditation 17, J Donne.
