On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 05:16:41PM +0300, Sawyer X wrote: > > I have a new module (which I'll probably release to CPAN soon > enough) which basically scans a machine for information (like > Puppet's Facter). > > The working title is Data::Scanner, but perhaps that doesn't really > cover it. Perhaps Data::Collector would be better, since it > collects information. I'd love for a name that also sounds like an > application since it has a CLI frontend as well. > > I'd appreciate suggestions to make this more searchable and > coherent.
"Data" is fairly meaningless as a name. The Data:: is intended to be used for modules that work with abstract data values: Data::Bind, Data::Bucket, Data::BitMask, Data::COW etc. There's a Sys:: namespace that has things like Sys::Info. (Perhaps you could integrate with that.) Generally speaking the more specialized the module the more words-per-level the name should have. Tim.
