# from Adam Kennedy
# on Monday 12 November 2007 19:58:
>I'm embarrased to say that lately I've been chucking some of my stuff
> (pler and pip) into pragma-like packages, just so that on the command
> line you can say
>
>> cpan --install pler
But that includes a lib/pler.pm.
>I have this ugly suspicion, however, that we aren't going to solve
> this problem with yet another namespace.
Yep. Looking at how CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm are both assuming modules
in their queries (not allowing distro names), we either have to redo
the index or redo the index. (I'm guessing that pause won't put the
distro in the index without a .pm file -- though maybe program_name in
the META.yml will handle that.)
>When it comes to command line apps, part of our problem comes from
>downstream with the distro packagers. If we end up with something
> like...
>
>> apt-get install libbin-foo-perl
>
>... instead of just ...
>
>> apt-get install foo
I think we can handle that in META.yml, no?
--Eric
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