On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I finished reading S22 (CPAN [DRAFT]). This synopsis is about the
> package format, not about the network. I have some comments:
>
> 1) Instead of calling the format "JIB", how about "PAR"? It can stand
> for Perl ARchive or the recursive PAR ARchive. This is more memorable.
It might make sense to adopt the same naming as .jar and .epub, two very
different zipfile-as-container formats. Both use a top-level directory called
"META-INF". There's no particular technical reason to pick a given
name, so going for something that looks familiar to people may be a win.
-jesse
