On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:45:28AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > But I also find MIME::Lite to be a horrible name. It certainly > doesn't present the module as a choice when you go through the > obvious keywords looking for modules for sending mail. > > Of course, at this point, "MIME::Lite" is so well established a > name a change is probably going to be more than difficult. I > still think it's feasible though, so as the distribution under > the new name includes a stub MIME/Lite.pm that just loads the > name module. It's never too late to undo mistakes. (Assuming, of > course, that people feel the way I do about the module's name.)
This person does, in spades. If I ever searched for mail box handling (and I have), I never looked twice at MIME::Lite, because I figured from the name that it is for MIME-encoded messages, and got attached to the search results because it mentioned mail as a likely client. Mx.
