On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:09:04AM -0400, Shawn H. Corey wrote: > How many people are using it? Would they be upset if you changed > the name? Don't forget, when you place a module in CPAN, it is no > longer entirely yours. People have invested time to use your module > and consider it as much theirs as yours.
Well, the module in question is http://search.cpan.org/dist/IO-Async-Loop-IO_Ppoll/ I dislike the "IO_" part of the prefix; when I did the Epoll one based on IO::Epoll, I finally decided to remove the "IO_" part. I'd like to rename this and some others to match. The thing about it, is that most people shouldn't be using it directly. There's a magic constructor on IO::Async::Loop itself, which selects a good (concrete) subclass from those installed. Also there's http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IO::Async::Loop::linux which knows of it, to automatically select it. This can easily be changed and updated. Given these, I suspect there'll be little impact because most people won't be using the name directly; it will come indirectly via one of these routes. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leon...@leonerd.org.uk ICQ# 4135350 | Registered Linux# 179460 http://www.leonerd.org.uk/
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