Re: Perl 6 modules plan

On Thursday 09 August 2001 03:56 pm, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> This is kinda sketchy to me. I like the module name and version, but
> author is a little weird. For CPAN modules, it should be
> straightforward: it's your CPAN id. But do we really *want* to support
> two modules with the same name but different authors? 

I originally thought this, too [1].  Then I thought better of it [2]. 

Authors don't have to be people, or submit to CPAN.  Companies, for 
instance, may offer competing modules in the same namespace.  There are, of 
course, other solutions that are viable.


[1] http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg03359.html , 
about two-thirds down.
[2] http://archive.develooper.com/[email protected]/msg03366.html

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