Re: CPAN cruft cleanup?

2005-02-23 Thread Johan Vromans
Linda W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >But from what I hear, I'm on my own -- Not completely. The cpancd[1] package has the functionality in it to find out the latest version of a series of versions. Although the package is obsolete (CPAN won't fit on a CD anymore), this function could be usef

RE: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Name for GStreamer bindings > > If all modules have really short names then nobody knows > when anybody > > else's modules are for, which rather defeats the purpose of > Cpan.  Cpan > > is a global namespace, and as such names have to be chosen > carefully to > > be as meaningful

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:25 +, Smylers wrote: > If all modules have really short names then nobody knows when anybody > else's modules are for, which rather defeats the purpose of Cpan. Cpan > is a global namespace, and as such names have to be chosen carefully to > be as meaningful as possib

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Smylers
Torsten Schoenfeld writes: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:26 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: > > > I don't see any advantage of using Gst over GStreamer as a name, > > they both describe the same thing and GStreamer is a tad more > > helpfull (to google a description). > > It's all about the length. It

RE: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Orton, Yves
Title: RE: Name for GStreamer bindings > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:08 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > > > Another alternative is to let the user choose. Take a look at Yves' > > Data::Dumper::Streamer module. During the installation, the user has a > > choice of additionally installing it in

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 00:26 -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote: > Multimedia::GStreamer What about just using Media::GStreamer and aliasing it to Gst? That would introduce a new top-level namespace, but I think it makes sense to have it. > I don't see any advantage of using Gst over GStreamer as a name

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:08 +0100, David Landgren wrote: > Another alternative is to let the user choose. Take a look at Yves' > Data::Dumper::Streamer module. During the installation, the user has a > choice of additionally installing it in the DDS namespace (this does not > occur by default).

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Torsten Schoenfeld
On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 21:29 -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote: > One option would be to use a very clear top level name space > and used 'aliased' internally to call it 'Gst'. > > http://search.cpan.org/~ovid/aliased-0.11/lib/aliased.pm That sounds like a good idea. The only nag is that it's a very y

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread David Landgren
Mark Stosberg wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: Aloha, GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework. GNOME already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to. It's based on GLib and

Re: Name for GStreamer bindings

2005-02-23 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:20:19PM -0500, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 01:20 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote: > > Aloha, > > > > GStreamer is a powerful and pretty popular media framework. GNOME > > already uses it extensively, and KDE just started to. It's based on > > GLib an