On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > 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.
Thank you. > 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. Understood, as the filenames for perl module bundles are sometimes not strictly named after the module namespace, so you have to be careful. A reasonable technique for searching for conflicts would be to browse the long module list, since it clearly enumerates the namespaces. Patrick's Time::Period is in that list. However, modlist.long doesn't accurately reflect everything which has been uploaded to CPAN. On different note, I'm not quite clear on the real mechanism which controls what becomes incorporated into modlist.long and what just winds up sitting in CPAN.
