# from Adam Kennedy
# on Tuesday 13 November 2007 17:05:
>> >> cpan --install pler
>>
>> But that includes a lib/pler.pm.
>
>You have cause and effect the wrong way around, I renamed the main
>application module as lib/pler.pm specifically so that "cpan --install
> pler" would Do What I Meant.
No, I totally get it. See also bin::sqlpp for a similar workaround.
>> Yep. Looking at how CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm are both assuming
>> modules in their queries (not allowing distro names), we either have
>> to redo the index or redo the index. (I'm guessing that pause won't
>> put the distro in the index without a .pm file -- though maybe
>> program_name in the META.yml will handle that.)
>
>Or we redo the way that both CPAN and CPANPLUS interpret "install foo"
> to search for BOTH module names and some new(perhaps) notional
> "script" name.
That's roughly what I mean by "redo the index". It will either take a
change to 02-package.details.txt.gz or another index file entirely.
Whatever it is, it should collect the 'program_name' keys from all of
the META.yml's and point back to the source tarball -- or just a list
of (most current version) distro names even.
In this regard, the only flaw with 02-package... is that it seems to
need a Module::Name field (and pause won't create an entry unless
there's a .pm file or (I think) a 'provides' in the META.yml -- and I
think we would be abusing 'provides' to do that.)
>we can't recommend the name of the resulting package
Of course not. The packager would look at 'program_name: bin/foo' and
say, "okay, we'll call that 'foo'."
>Some notional META.yml key that identifies a package as an app rather
> than a library would problem be enough to then modify the transformed
> package name.
>
>So instead of foo -> libfoo-perl or perl(libfoo) they would just foo
> -> foo if they saw "type: application" etc etc...
Do we need to go beyond the "program_name" key? That identifies the
package as an application. The 'type' key can wait until we think of
something which is neither an application nor a library (and yet is
still package on CPAN -- I'm drawing a blank on what color of rabbit
that might be though.)
--Eric
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