Simon Cozens writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Orton) writes: > > > Well suggest a name. It seems like folks concur that the name is not > > so great so ill alias it to something else. > > Mail::Send::MIME?
That's nice, and reasonably as to what the module does descriptive. I still feel that when faced with it among the plethora of other modules that I listed earlier in this thread I still probably wouldn't've picked it, because mime sounds like something complicated that I don't need to do. But missing "MIME" out of the module name would be odd, since the module definitely does do mime! I don't think it's a problem that can be solved merely by changing the name of the module -- the fact that there are so many (other) mail-sending modules out there means there's bound to be confusion. Modules rarely get removed from Cpan, so as time goes on the problem is likely to get worse: in more and more areas there will be several (arguably too many) competing modules, making it hard for people to spot which one they want. The Cpan rating thing may help somewhat in this regard -- I will log on and give MIME::Lite a good review sometime, honestly! What would really be useful is a comparison of the various mail-sending modules available, listing which features and interfaces each has and in which situations it can be used -- in the hope that by sticking to facts rather than including opinions it will not be too controversial; perhaps the various module authors could even link to it in each of the modules' docs? Personally I found Simon's commentary on some mail-sending modules to be very useful (and I didn't object to his choice of words: when he found something he didn't like he merely said so -- he didn't insult the code's author or make allegations about members of the author's familiar or anything). I mention the comparison idea because I've got half-mentally-composed an article discussing the different CGI-parameter-parsing interfaces available in various modules -- I don't really like any of them (including CGI::Lite, of which I'm the maintainer), but they irritate me in different ways and are less-annoying in different circumstances. I'll let you know when it's finished, and try to put it somewhere where it will be of use to somebody wanting to choose a CGI module. Perhaps I'll then do one for mail-sending (or templating, or XML parsing, or dealing with command-line arguments, or ...) -- but if anybody wants to beat me to it in an area where they have experience of a number of modules I won't mind! Smylers
