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CPAN Modules on Github -- Naming conventions?by saintmike (Vicar) |
on Jun 09, 2009 at 18:24 UTC ( [id://770042]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
saintmike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Github is catching up fast as the preferred destination for CPAN module development. But I wonder: Have we agreed yet on how to name our projects? Shouldn't there be a de-facto standard?
Obviously there's no such thing yet, as there is http://github.com/gisle/libwww-perl which is the true name of the CPAN module (indeed, the distro name is called "libwww-perl", which is very unusual for CPAN), then there is http://github.com/mschilli/log4perl which uses a short (but unambiguous) name and http://github.com/boumenot/p5-Net-Amazon which adheres to the RHEL/FBSD school of thought. Another possibility would be the Debian way, something like "libnet-amazon-perl". Clearly, there should be a "-perl" (or -cpan) suffix (or prefix) to distinguish CPAN modules from the same projects, written in a different language. Thoughts on a naming standard?
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