On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 04:56:32PM -0800, David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > * In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Muir Sharnoff > * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * > * > I propose that the Deprecated:: prefex be added to modules > * > whose use is discouraged by the module's author. > * > * that would not work. people may need the module to work with > * older code. the namespace is not a good place for meta-information. > > I would suggest that the package name be changed at the same > time. This would prevent the accidental replacement. Or maybe > it wouldn't if the module got packaged by a 3rd party.
That is still not a good idea. As brian says, metainformation like that should not encoded in the module name. Also, it wouldn't necessarily encode *enough* information, such as whether the author has some recommendations to use instead of the deprecated one. Why can't the Makefile.PL of a deprecated module simply be changed to make the right discouragements, along with the documentation (=head1 DEPRECATED, maybe?)? > -Dave -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
