On 3/19/13 6:03 PM, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Michael G. Schwern <[email protected]> wrote: >> -1 to case-insensitive package names, because case matters to the language. > > Sadly, they really need to be case-insensitive, because of how Perl > maps "Foo::Bar" to "Foo/Bar.pm". > > We don't want someone installing "foo::bar" (intentionally or by > accident in a dependency chain) to overwrite an existing "Foo/Bar.pm"
I thought you had a typo there, but I see what you mean. Yeah, put that way I agree, package permissions on CPAN should be case sensitive. Existing conflicts grandfathered in as needed.
