Re: Postgres perl module namespace

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres perl module namespace
Date: 2021-08-11 02:26:42
Message-ID: 6c33f6e2-659e-04d3-36cd-ec7c94450712@dunslane.net
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On 8/10/21 10:13 PM, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> If we were publishing them on CPAN that would be reasonable. But we're
>> not, nor are we likely to, I believe.
> I'm now trying to understand the purpose of the renaming. I thought the problem was that RPM packagers wanted something that was unlikely to collide. Publishing on CPAN would be the way to claim the namespace.
>
> What's the purpose of this idea then? If there isn't one, I'd rather just keep the current names.

Yes we want them to be in a namespace where they are unlikely to collide
with anything else. No, you don't have to publish on CPAN to achieve that.

cheers

andrew

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