On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > I have written "Test::Builder2" more times than I can count. > > Wait, I can count them. It occurs at least 1280 times in the distribution. > That's 18,000 keystrokes. 19,000 if you count shift. It gets a little > tiresome. That's just the current count, who knows how many times I've > retyped it. > > In the interest of saving my hands, and the hands of test module authors, I'm > considering changing the namespace from Test::Builder2 to just TB2. Like LWP > and DBI. > > Test::Builder2 has a lot of parts, as you can see here: > https://metacpan.org/release/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-2.00_07/ > > Here's some examples. > > Before After > ------ ----- > Test::Builder2 TB2 > Test::Builder2::History TB2::History. > Test::Builder2::Event::SetPlan > TB2::Event::SetPlan > Test::Builder2::Formatter::TAP::v13 TB2::Formatter::TAP::v13 > > Test::Builder, Test::More and Test::Simple remain unchanged. > > This both saves wear on joints and it establishes a clear "keep outta my > namespace" namespace for TB2 to expand into. 3rd party extensions can go into > TB2X:: or just Test:: like normal. > > On the down side, it doesn't contain the word "Test". I'm not too worried as > this is the guts of testing, and by the time you need it you should already > have picked up enough Perl to find it. > > It also busts compatibility with the existing TB2 alphas... but that's what > alphas are for. I've very well broken compatibility nine other ways this > month anyway. > > Oh, and somebody has to do it. > > Thoughts?
I'm not seeing the point really. By this logic we can reduce all frameworks on CPAN to some three letter acronym. To be honest I don't think Test::Builder is used directly often enough to justify that. Leon
