Brian (and other PAUSE admins), Thanks for your feedback. At the time I wrote these modules (and a few more, yet to be uploaded) my rationale was that these were a collection of general /miscellaneous utility modules (for the lack of a better description), that were shared by many of my projects but didn't quite belong to specific ones. Subsequently they were named as such in my local environment.
I had hesitated about requesting the "Util" namespace for the reason made obvious by your comments. But I overcame my hesitation after seeing a few other registered modules in similar vein. i.e. with "fuzzy" sounding namespaces. And I hope to have this 'Util' namespace created because I see it as a potential "community garden" for petty/odd modules that don't quite deserve their own namespaces. I imagine that it might help many other folks to avoid the headache of coming up with bona fide sounding project names for their one-off modules, too. I hope my request does not impose not too big of a problem. Of course, I'd completely understand if folks feel strongly negative about it and "vote it down" so to speak. I'd appreciate any suggestions/advice for the alternative namespace(s). Sincerely, Kan On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:08 PM, brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> wrote: > [[ This message was both posted and mailed: see > the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] > > In article <201101230203.p0n23nl5004...@pause.fiz-chemie.de>, Perl > Authors Upload Server <upl...@pause.perl.org> wrote: > >> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: >> >> modid: Util::User >> DSLIP: MdpOp >> description: becomes a user >> userid: KAN (刘刊) > >> This modules provides an OO interface (methods) to become a user >> via setting uid/gid or sudo > > Is there a name that could convey that idea? Util:: doesn't say > anything about the task, and ::User doesn't give it any context. By > looking at the name alone, no one is going to know what this module > does, > > I have similar comments about all the Util:: modules you sent in for > registration. > > -- > brian d foy (one of many PAUSE admins), http://pause.perl.org > PAUSE instructions: http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about > Archives: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules > Please send all messages back to modules@perl.org with no CC to me. >
