On Nov 21, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Christopher Hicks wrote:
Hmmm. I can have extra pain every time I'm installing something to
avoid occassionally getting something I don't want or I can have pain
every thousandth time I install something because oopsie I got
something extra. It doesn't seem like a hard choice to me. Let's just
say your many people aren't the same folks as my any people. ;-)
The lack of distname support due to anal retentive accident avoidance
in CPAN is utterly odd considering the culture of DWIMery that is so
much a part of Perl. I'm not surprised that one person would think
this was good, but the whole Perl community acquiescing to it is quite
a shock.
Think about what would happen if Satan uploaded a malicious
distribution called "PathTools" with a higher version number than mine.
You'd want the whole world to get Satan's distribution by default,
just so they can save a couple keystrokes?
Also, "lack of distname support" is overblowing the situation.
Distnames are supported perfectly fine as long as you put it in the
proper syntax with author's ID and version.
-Ken
