Dear Modules: I wrote/maintain a perl-based thing named NMQual (http://nmqual.googlecode.com). It creates value-added installations of NONMEM(r), a licensed fortran program for fitting nonlinear mixed effects models.
One problem I have is that my scripts don't know unambiguously where to find my subroutines (usually a .pm file in same directory). "use lib $FindBin::Bin;" seems to be guessing, and "rewriting" the scripts on an installation-specific basis seems to be a hack. It occurred to me that perhaps I should communicate my routines through CPAN, and let perl just find them on @INC. If that is a good idea, please comment on appropriate module name. Googling "nmqual" returns a first page with all-appropriate hits. Should I consider NMQual (Nmqual?) as a top-level namespace? More than half my routines are convenience abstractions, borrowing heavily from File::Spec. A large chunk implements patching with context-style diffs in a platform neutral way (relies on Text::Patch) so that I don't have to worry about Windows users not having the system patch utility (although I may have to worry about ActivePerl users not finding my package). Thanks, Tim
