On 8/10/21 10:13 PM, Mark Dilger wrote: > >> On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: >> >> If we were publishing them on CPAN that would be reasonable. But we're >> not, nor are we likely to, I believe. > I'm now trying to understand the purpose of the renaming. I thought the > problem was that RPM packagers wanted something that was unlikely to collide. > Publishing on CPAN would be the way to claim the namespace. > > What's the purpose of this idea then? If there isn't one, I'd rather just > keep the current names.
Yes we want them to be in a namespace where they are unlikely to collide with anything else. No, you don't have to publish on CPAN to achieve that. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
