On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 04:06 pm, Tim Bunce wrote:
There's no need (or mechanism) to register the name of a namespace, only the module(s) within it, e.g., Alien::zlib.
But I think there should be an Alien.pm to provide, (interfaces to) services that Alien::foo modules will need such as checking if a library is installed.
So I suggest you register an Alien.pm module name.
The Alien module can also serve to document the principles and conventions of the Alien::* namespace - such as...
- what 'things' Alien::* modules can relate to
- how the namespace below Alien:: is managed
- how version number of an Alien::foo module relates to the
version number of the alien thing it corresponds to.
- the interface to the services provided by the Alien module, obviously
etc etc
Tim.
I thought that is what I did by registering Alien. (Alien.pm)
In the first round, Alien.pm will be just POD.
Arthur
