At 18:54 -0700 2000.09.12, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> Unfortunately, there are only a finite number of things one can
> call such a software package.
Yes, but we've not yet reached that finite point.
> Then along comes this e-mail complaining about the name. Ugh.
> I was perfectly happy *not* to submit it to CPAN in the first
> place. Therefore, I really don't have the time, energy, or
> inclination to "defend" the code's right to be in CPAN. I
> really don't care. I write software that is useful to me. If
> others can benefit from the work, great.
>
> If the power that be at CPAN want to remove it, so be it.
No one would ask you to remove it. But it is the responsibility of anyone
uploading a package to CPAN to check to see if the name is in use. You can
use http://search.cpan.org/ to quickly and easily check, or run it past
this mailing list.
This one is a special case, though. Sean's (formerly Gisle's) distribution
uses a name that does not exist in the package itself. I think that is a
mistake, too. I'd rather the package were called HTML-TreeBuilder, since
that's the nae of the module. Oh well.
Thanks,
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