On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 05:30:30PM +0000, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote: > Otherwise, we have to specialcase out all sorts of odd things, and > whatever is left must be IDs. > > cpan://dist/Foo-Bar > cpan://module/Foo::Bar > cpan://FRED
It's not quite *that* bad; the special cases are all lowercase, and cpan ids are all uppercase. Still, I think I agree that using an author or id namespace is better than sticking cpan ids into the top level. hdp.