On Wed, April 12, 2006 1:57 pm, A. Pagaltzis said:
> * Daniel T. Staal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-12 15:15]:
>> On Wed, April 12, 2006 8:48 am, A. Pagaltzis said:
>> > App::PETERPAN::SuperApp / App::GULLIVER::SuperApp?
>>
>> That works until there's a team working on each app.
>
> So what, though? Catalyst is developed by a team, but ends up in
> Marcus Ramberg’s CPAN directory; likewise, Gtk2 has a whole team
> behind it, but the releases end up in Torsten Schönberger’s CPAN
> directory. Then there are cases like http://search.cpan.org/~bbc/
> which is an umbrella account for a team.

It just seems like bad practice to use meaningful metadata that is *not*
necessarily constant (though it often is in practice) as part of a unique
identifier.  It makes the system less adaptable.

Daniel T. Staal

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