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Re: s/CPAN/Perl Something/g

by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 29, 2005 at 14:02 UTC ( [id://496107]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Quick thought: s/CPAN/Perl Something/g

Why not change the name of CPAN to something with the substring 'Perl' contained in it

Because, ultimately, CPAN is not your project, and not a Perlmonks project either.

Perhaps your idea is brilliant. So, why don't you just go out and implement your idea? How do you think CPAN started? Someone posted the idea on Perlmonks, and then it suddenly happened? No! Someone had an idea, and he just went out, did it, and said this is what I did, this is how you use it, feel free to use it or ignore it. And it became a hit.

So, go out and set up a "Perlan" or a "Perl Archives" or whatever. And since all modules on CPAN are freely distributable, you won't have a problem filling your archive.

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Re^2: s/CPAN/Perl Something/g
by hakkr (Chaplain) on Sep 30, 2005 at 13:19 UTC
    If 'they' are gonna rename anything it should be CPANTS.

    They might as well call that YFRONTS :)
    or CTROUSERS (I'm sorry, I'll get my coat)

      But there already is a CPANTS.

Re^2: s/CPAN/Perl Something/g
by Jenda (Abbot) on Sep 30, 2005 at 18:44 UTC

    Well ... I think "someone had an idea" is not precise. Looks to me like someone looked at CTAN and though it might be nice to have something like that for Perl :-)

    BTW, there is no "TeX" in "CTAN" either.

    Jenda
    XML sucks. Badly. SOAP on the other hand is the most powerfull vacuum pump ever invented.

Re^2: s/CPAN/Perl Something/g
by rvosa (Curate) on Sep 30, 2005 at 19:37 UTC
    Actually, no, don't go and set up a "Perlan". CPAN is the one, canonical module repository for perl. Let's keep it that way, it's one of the things that makes perl attractive.

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