Hi!
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Dominique Quatravaux wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I'm not a native speaker, and that means I ramble a bit
> from lack of skill in making short sentences. Please bear with me.)
>
> Hi module authors,
>
> I'm DOMQ on CPAN, and I'm about to release a new application, NutsPKI.
> Problem is, I don't know where to put it on the CPAN, if at all.
>
> The application is an X509 PKI, which delivers X509 certificates. It's
> not just the CA (that would be Crypt::OpenSSL::CA, which is already on
> CPAN), and it's not just a Web application; when finished, it will
> have a Web interface, a validation workflow, it will send emails, have
> crontabs, store stuff into an LDAP directory, and supervise and/or own
> security-critical parts of the infrastructure (eg its own Apache web
> server, an OpenLDAP server and an OCSP responder).
>
> Of course I'll strive to keep it as modular as possible (eg ship the
> OCSP part as Crypt::OCSP::Responder or something). But at the end of
> the day, there remains a need for a little pyramid-shaped piece of
> Perl to go on top of that heap of CPAN slabs and act as the
> application proper. This whatever-NutsPKI-0.01.tar.gz will not be
> re-useable code in OO parlance (meaning that you'll have to edit it in
> order to change its purpose).
>
> My options wrt the CPAN namespace are:
>
> 1. not put it on the CPAN at all (eg Slashcode);
> 2. use the root namespace ("NutsPKI"), which some high-profile CPAN
> contributor advised me to do over IRC today (a lot of the
> newfangled Catalyst applications do that these days, eg Angerwhale);
> 3. use a themed toplevel namespace, ie Crypt::NutsPKI
> (Mail::SpamAssassin does that);
> 4. create a whole new Application:: namespace to host applications,
> in the sense of code that is not re-useable without alteration
> (no precedent).
>
Just put it under the App:: namespace:
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=app
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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