Re: Postgres perl module namespace

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 9:37 AM Mark Dilger
<mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> >
> > use PgTest::Utils;
> > use PgTest::PostgresNode;
>
> Checking CPAN, it seems there are three older modules with names starting with "Postgres":
>
> Postgres
> Postgres::Handler
> Postgres::Handler::HTML
>
> It would be confusing to combine official PostgreSQL modules with those third party ones, so perhaps we can claim the PostgreSQL namespace for official project modules. How about:
>
> PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster
> PostgreSQL::Test::Lib
> PostgreSQL::Test::Utils
>
> and then if we ever wanted to have official packages for non-test purposes, we could start another namespace under PostgreSQL.

Maybe it's me but I would find that more confusing. Also, to actually
claim PostgreSQL namespace, we would have to actually publish them on
CPAN right?