James E Keenan writes: > I am in the process of developing a CPAN library which I am > considering calling Git-Multisect-Perl. ... > > 'Multisect::' is chosen to contrast with 'bisect'.
That hadn't occurred to me. I read it as a contraction of ‘multiple sections’ or similar. > When we speak of bisection in the context of, say, Perl 5 core > development and use of Porting/bisect.pl, we're usually looking for a > single answer to a question, e.g., at which specific commit did this > test file start to experience failures. Recently, however, we have a > case where a file failed in different ways over many months. That's > the actual use case which led me to develop this library. However, ‘bisect’ is a well known word for this activity. Sometimes with naming things it's clearer to be familiar-but-approximate rather than accurate-but-obscure. Once the name has got somebody's attention, the docs can explain nuances. I think Git::MultiBisect or Git::Bisect::Multiple get the idea across more obviously. > The '::Perl' in the namespace is intended to say, "This is a way to > apply the concept of multisection to typical needs in Perl development Unfortunately I don't think it does that. A suffix of ::Perl usually indicates that it's implemented in Perl — either because there's also an ::XS variant, or it's a port of a library that originated in Java or some other language. I'm not sure there is anything which indicates ‘typical for Perl development’. I'd omit that aspect from the name. > we don't want to foreclose the possibility of future libraries which > use git to perform multisection in other problem spaces." Let any hypothetical future rival Git-multi-bisect distribution — and there may not be one — come up with an adjective that distinguishes itself from yours. Alternatively, Devel::Git::MultiBisect would indicate that this is a tool for Perl development use. Good luck! Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
