On Tuesday 10 Nov 2009 19:42:09 John M. Gamble wrote: > Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Ryan Voots <simcop2...@yahoo.com> [2009-11-09 15:20]: > >> I Thought the typical convention was to try to find some other > >> root namespace to put things in rather than making yet another > >> one? > > > > No one browses CPAN by namespace any more, so it hardly matters. > > Ahem. Just because it's deliberately made difficult to do so doesn't > mean that no one does it. > > In particular the Math and Algorithm namespaces are something I browse > through often, and I > doubt that I'm the only one. >
Yeah. I should note that now that I've started contributing to CPANHQ (see http://perlbuzz.com/2009/07/introducing-cpanhq.html ) I've been thinking of implementing a dynamic category tree, similar to the Sourceforge.net/old- Freshmeat.net trove categorisation, only somewhat more suitable to Perl and CPAN. People didn't like my suggestion for a list of canonical categories besides the keywords section at the META.yml, but I think I can use the keywords section for that by doing "cat/t/topic/word-proc" keywords (or alternatively keep the database in an external place). I don't intend to depend on the authors alone - by all means ordinary surfers will be able to tag or categorise stuff too (though that would be with less weight). Also see this post to the wikimedia-L on why I think free-form tags have not completely superseded category trees: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-October/055734.html I should note that as great as the hierarchical organisation of the Perl 5 namespaces is (and by infusion CPAN's), it still can be misleading. If you're looking for an OOP module, you are likely to look under Object- or Class- - not under "Moose". I don't want to have hard rules against keeping things in proper order, I'm just saying that we need a more semantic categorisation system than the Perl 5 namespaces. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Whereas I find the trend toward cutesy names problematic. Because > > ultimately what matters is that things be findable by sticking > > the obvious keywords into search.cpan.org. Github::Fork::Parent > > is quite acceptable by that criterion. > > > > Regards, > > -john > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What does "Zionism" mean? - http://shlom.in/def-zionism Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice.
