perlquestion
suaveant
I recently got my registered name with PAUSE, and am well into development of my first module. Reading the PAUSE docs it said I should discuss a namespace with the community and
work out any issues, and I though PerlMonks might be a good place to do that. <P>
I am looking to use the namespace Gnift, (pronnounced niff-t) standing for GNu Internet File Transfer. The goal of the
project is to provide a unified interface to various methods
to transfer files, such as DBI does for databases and LWP does for url grabs. I am using the API in Graham Barr's
<A HREF="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=libnet">Net::FTP</A> that way I figure many people can
easily switch their current applications to use Gnift. Right now it uses Net::FTP as a backend for FTP transfers,
and have it partially working with SSH transfers using <A HREF="http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Net-SSH-Perl">Net::SSH::Perl</A> (which [btrott] has been VERY helpful with ++).<P>
Should this be under an existing namespace, like Net::Gnift?
I'm thinking not, since packages like DBI and LWP are sitting at the top level, but I don't claim to know everything. :)<P>
Input will be much appreciated (ideas on the module itself may be helpful, too).
<P> - Ant