On 8/10/21 10:26 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > On 8/10/21 10:13 PM, Mark Dilger wrote: >>> On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: >>> >>> If we were publishing them on CPAN that would be reasonable. But we're >>> not, nor are we likely to, I believe. >> I'm now trying to understand the purpose of the renaming. I thought the >> problem was that RPM packagers wanted something that was unlikely to >> collide. Publishing on CPAN would be the way to claim the namespace. >> >> What's the purpose of this idea then? If there isn't one, I'd rather just >> keep the current names. > > > Yes we want them to be in a namespace where they are unlikely to collide > with anything else. No, you don't have to publish on CPAN to achieve that. >
Incidentally, not publishing on CPAN was a major reason given a few years ago for using fairly lax perlcritic policies. If we publish these on CPAN now some people at least might want to revisit that decision. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
