Matt, I gave some thought about your suggestion. While agreeing with you that putting more modules under an "unsanctioned" name space might give people a false impression of legitimacy and cause you guys further grief, I'm not entirely comfortable with using my CPAN ID, for the hubris factor we had previously debated.
So I'm proposing a compromise. Instead of "Util", I'd like to put these modules under "MD" which is the acronym of a project I've been working on. I don't see any existing module under this name space yet. And I think that to any regular user, "MD" is no more or no less meaningful, relevant, or succinct (think of POE as an example) than "KAN", which makes me feel like being a bit too brash. I assume that once approved, I'll have some autonomy on the 2nd level name space and module names. So I'd like to keep them the way they already are. i.e. They are currently, Util-AsyncIO-RW Util-Getopt-Menu Util-LockFile-PID Util-LockFile-Time Util-SQLiteDB-UniSchema Util-Thread-Logger Util-User-Switch proposed to be, MD-AsyncIO-RW MD-Getopt-Menu MD-LockFile-PID MD-LockFile-Time MD-SQLiteDB-UniSchema MD-Thread-Logger MD-User-Switch I hope this proposal can "do you by right". And if you approve, I will delete my modules under "Util" and repackage them as MD::*. Sincerely, -Kan On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Matt S Trout <m...@shadowcat.co.uk> wrote: > All of these modules seem like they could have sensible names. > > If you want to dump them into a top level namespace, might I suggest > KAN:: please? Util:: is meaningless and I really don't want people to > see that as a precedent. > > Please, *please* stop uploading into Util:: and let's talk about *good* > names for your code. I really want it on CPAN, but the current names are > really not a good idea. > > -- > Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a > clue > > http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ > > Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our Catalyst > commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team. >
