Re: Module naming and a couple other questions

2012-09-22 Thread Joshua Megerman
Thank you for your replies - here's a bit more info: 1. This is not something that only runs on Win32; in fact, I doubt it will run on Win32, as this uses the WMI code from the Samba project to support WMI on non-Win32 platforms. WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation (or something like

Re: Module naming and a couple other questions

2012-09-22 Thread Buddy Burden
Joshua, 2. It sounds like given the single function and it's relative uniqueness, there's no problem exporting it by default other than not being able to change it later. For the sake of forward compatibility, I'll probably just put it in @EXPORT_OK and require its explicit import. Bearing

Re: Module naming and a couple other questions

2012-09-15 Thread Smylers
Joshua Megerman writes: I'm a new member of PAUSE, looking to upload my first module. Hi Josh. Thanks for sharing with the Perl community. 1. I have developed a module that provides an XS interface to the WMI library (libasync_wmi_lib.so) that is generated by building the Zenoss WMI

Re: Module naming and a couple other questions

2012-09-15 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi Josh, # from Joshua Megerman on Friday 14 September 2012: My initial inclination was to just call the module WMIClient, but I'm starting to think that WMI::Client or some other name would be better. The only 2 modules I currently see on CPAN that provide similar functionality are DBD::WMI and

Module naming and a couple other questions

2012-09-14 Thread Joshua Megerman
I originally sent this to modu...@perl.org, but got no responses. I was pointed here and am reposting them with a few tweaks. Any advice greatly appreciated! I'm a new member of PAUSE, looking to upload my first module. I ask for some advice from those who have more experience than I, as I'd