Re: Distribution names are not unique. We need to figure out what to do about it.

[email protected] (David Golden)
Newsgroups perl.cpan.workers
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Michael G. Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
> -1 to case-insensitive package names, because case matters to the language.

Sadly, they really need to be case-insensitive, because of how Perl
maps "Foo::Bar" to "Foo/Bar.pm".

We don't want someone installing "foo::bar" (intentionally or by
accident in a dependency chain) to overwrite an existing "Foo/Bar.pm"

David

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