On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, John Siracusa wrote: : On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote: : > Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being : > extended to include version number and author. : > : > If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to : > simply be the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are : > frequently mnemonic, are necessary prerequisites for putting a module on the : > CPAN in any case, and also map straight onto email addresses through which : > authors can be contacted. : : That's fine for what it is, but I don't think it has the right granularity : for the problem I described in my original post. If Acme wants to create : custom Acme modules in-house and ensure that they will play well with : modules from anyplace else, they can't very well rely on a CPAN author name : to isolate their namespace. So they're back to making up their own : convention under Local:: (and risking conflicts with other companies that : try to do the same), or using Acme:: (whoops! CPAN conflict!), etc.
I expect to end up with a multi-level system, where you can use anything from a DNS name (guaranteed to contain dots) through author IDs (no dots) to blessed top-level names for universally acclaimed modules, for some definition of universal. Plus the technological fix of aliasing, as several of you have discussed. Basically, we name interfaces at a more abstract level than we do implementations. Devil in the details, as usual... Larry
