On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:24:40PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> I'd prefer MP3:: myself because MPEG makes people think first of
> video.
Go for MP3::* then and let others follow... :-)
Tim.
> Any chance Chris has thought about changing his module's name
> to MP3::Info?
>
> Lincoln
>
> Tim Bunce writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm nearly ready to release a pure-perl interface to the Napster MP3
> > > search and download engine. Currently, I'm calling it MPEG::Napster,
> > > which would put it in the sparsely-populated MPEG namespace. I think
> > > this makes sense because Napster is an MP3-specific protocol, and my
> > > module hass another MPEG::* module, MPEG::MP3Info, as a prerequisite.
> > >
> > > However, some people have suggested I put the module into the Net::
> > > namespace, in recognition of its role as a networking client.
> > > Preferences/advice?
> >
> > Net:: is too overloaded and is best reserved for low-level RFC-based
> > standard protocols.
> >
> > We should probably have an MP3 category, but I guess MPEG::'s okay.
> >
> > Tim.
>
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