Looking for a CPAN namespace

rje has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Gentle brothers and sisters,

I would like to submit my modules to CPAN, but I need to prayerfully consider the root namespace.

My modules are pure-Perl code for reading and writing Commodore disk image structures. They can work with a number of Commodore image formats; in other words, they're not limited to the ubiquitous D64 format.

I've spoken with Paweł Król, who wrote the D64:: family of Perl modules, and he suggests a Commodore:: root namespace. I'd like to get y'all's opinions on this.

Thanks for your consideration!

Bro. Robert

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Re: Looking for a CPAN namespace by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 08, 2013 at 16:50 UTC
Vaguely similar modules include Device::Cdio::ISO9660::IFS and IO::DiskImage::Floppy, so those are potential candidates. Personally I'm of the opinion that virtually nobody browses the CPAN by namespace any more, so top-level names are cheap. `package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re^2: Looking for a CPAN namespace by Anonymous Monk on Mar 08, 2013 at 21:13 UTC
Personally I'm of the opinion that virtually nobody browses the CPAN by namespace any more, so top-level names are cheap. You know ;) I still do sometime look at the modlist just for kicks, but yeah, even though http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/ is being updated again, namespace registration has been pointless for a long time, so top-level names are cheap, first-come first serve, provided they are reasonable names, which I think Commodore is :) On The Naming of Modules	[reply]


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