On 6/18/02 6:10 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > Larry has previously mentioned the prospect of Perl 6 module names being > extended to include version number and author. > > If this were to be done, would seem reasonable for the "author" component to > simply be the author's CPAN username. These are guaranteed unique, are > frequently mnemonic, are necessary prerequisites for putting a module on the > CPAN in any case, and also map straight onto email addresses through which > authors can be contacted.
That's fine for what it is, but I don't think it has the right granularity for the problem I described in my original post. If Acme wants to create custom Acme modules in-house and ensure that they will play well with modules from anyplace else, they can't very well rely on a CPAN author name to isolate their namespace. So they're back to making up their own convention under Local:: (and risking conflicts with other companies that try to do the same), or using Acme:: (whoops! CPAN conflict!), etc. -John
