On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:20:04AM -0700, Jim Trocki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Recently I've been receiving emails from people who are trying to > install "mon" (http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/), which requires > Patrick Ryan's Time::Period module to operate. It turns out that Dave > Cross has a completely different Time::Period module in CPAN, which > obviously conflicts with the namespace of Patrick's module, and is > causing confusion and hassle. Here are the two modules: > > http://search.cpan.org/search?module=Time::Period > > How do we get this resolved? Since Dave's module is newer than > Patrick's, I believe it should be renamed and older copies which use > the Time::Period namespace should be removed from CPAN so as to not > further propagate the conflict.
As my Time::Period was only a silly example of overloading, I've queued it for removal from CPAN. This will take a few days. Maybe I'll re-release it as an Acme:: module at some point. Strange that I didn't see Patrick's module when I was looking for potential names for my module. That may be because his distribution is called Period rather than the more usual Time-Period. Dave... -- "Don't you boys know any _nice_ songs?"
