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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:42:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul J. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sean M. Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Nick Chirca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HTTP::Request::Form and TreeBuilder.pm
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> Paul Lucas: you should to rename your dist to something other than HTML_Tree
> / HTML::Tree.
Unfortunately, there is no better name.
> You named it that without consideration of the fact that there was already a
> dist called HTML-Tree.
First, unless you can read my mind, you have no knowledge of
what I considered and what I didn't. Second, I /did/ consider
it, but decided to do what I did.
> And many people
Actually, no more than two before you.
> have since /patiently/ pointed out that HTML_Tree/HTML::Tree is a confusing
> name; and apparently it /is/ actually confusing people.
There's a massive amount of confusion in thw world. Renaming
my module something else will not reduce that confusion by any
significant amount.
Additionally, I've also /patiently/ pointed out that my
software is, first and foremost, a C++ library. In /that/
namespace, my chosen name is sufficiently unique. And, again,
said library just so happens to have a Perl language binding
thrown in for free.
A single developer isn't going to use both my package /and/
somebody else's simultaneously anyway.
> I don't care if you publish your module dist under some other name, but just
> stop publishing in CPAN under the name HTML::Tree or HTML_Tree.
When I submitted the module, the module-powers-that-be could
have rejected it: they didn't.
There simply aren't enough synonyms in English that accurately
describe what my module does. Therefore, the only resort would
be to contrive a name that has nothing to do with what the
module does. (For instance HTML::Mason is a bad name. Can you
tell what that does from the name? I can't.) I don't want to
pick a meaningless name just so it's unique. Sorry.
- Paul
