On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:57:29AM -0700, Jim Trocki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > > > 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.
Well, perhaps the best approach would have been to do the search that you first pointed out. Which clearly lists both modules by name :-/ > 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. That's controlled by the modules mailing list. Any author can upload stuff to CPAN, but only certain modules get added to the official list. Dave... -- And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning.
