>>>>> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:50:49 +0000, Mike Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Yes, it's pretty much the same thing; certainly the work I want to
> contribute to CPAN has been done in collaboration with Heikki's
> employers Index Data ApS (as you can see from the Cc: to Heiki's
> colleague Sebastian) -- in fact, the module I want to contribute is
> advertised on the front page of www.indexdata.dk!
Good!
>> If not, it would be a good idea if the united Yaz hackers could come
>> up with namespace suggestions. We, the module list maintainers,
>> would then register these namespaces so that overlap and confusion
>> is avoided and all that.
>>
>> How does that sound?
> I think that the simplest general approach would be to give the whole
> of Net::Z3950 to Index Data and me jointly and severally, and we'll
> figure out between us how best to slice up the area beneath that.
> That's unless CPAN-meisters wish to keep a tighter rein on the whole
> of the namespace.
CPAN infrastructure is built upon trust, so sharing namespace between
users is OK. (Heikki, when you want to be registered as CPAN author
too, please drop a line)
> Does PAUSE make it possible for multiple contributors to put modules
> into the same area?
Yes, but you need to tell me in advance which users share what. You
have no interactive page on PAUSE that lets you handle that.
> If not, then probably the easiest way to do this,
> is just to give me Net::Z3950, and let me handle the uploads for my
> Index Data collaborators.
I'll do so for now and you inform me please who else should be
regarded as co-owner for which namespace.
> Is it legitimate CPAN behaviour to have a module distribution called
> (just) Net::Z3950 and another called Net::Z3950::SimpleServer, or
> should we applu the rule that if lower nodes are used, then the upper
> nodes should not be?
Typically you decide what you prefer here. I think, it's natural to
actually use the top level (Net::Z3950), but if you see better fit to
keep it unused, that is your decision. I've now registered Net::Z3950
for you. You need not register all namepaces you use below that, we
trust that there won't be a conflict there.
Regards,
--
andreas
