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Standalone Script Naming for CPANby swestrup (Novice) |
on Jun 24, 2010 at 23:52 UTC ( [id://846423]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
swestrup has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: I've been writing in Perl for years, but I've never released anything to CPAN before. Now though, I have a bulk rename program that I've been working on, and its nearing the point where I'd like to upload it to CPAN. The big question is what naming hierarchy to use. I haven't been able to find a FAQ for what the various top-level names in CPAN are for, and the only relevant info I could find in the CPAN FAQs says: "Please, talk to other people (comp.lang.perl.modules, modules@perl.org or any mailing list that fits your problem domain) before you decide upon the namespace you're going to use for your module." This doesn't help me much as I haven't had access to usenet for years, and modules@perl.org doesn't appear to be a discussion community. I figured I could ask here about my naming ideas, and you could point me to any better place that I should be asking my questions. The program itself is a bulk rename utility that was originally based on File::Rename but has now morphed into a completely different beast. It seems that that the App top-level namespace is intended for stand-alone applications, so I've been thinking of uploading it as App::BulkRename or maybe App::FileTools::BulkRename, as there are other related file manipulation tools I may want to release later. On the other hand, as a distant fork of File::Rename, I suppose that one might also consider uploading it as File::BulkRename but I wonder if that wouldn't confuse folks into thinking its a bulk rename library, as opposed to a stand-alone program. I also considered uploading it to CPAN scripts, but they seem to demand one-file scripts, and this program already consists of a number of modules and a data file. Anyway, any advice on naming this thing would be appreciated.
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