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Re: CPAN distribution naming recommendations

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Jun 03, 2017 at 02:29 UTC ( [id://1192036]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to CPAN distribution naming recommendations

My suggestion is Geo::MagneticVariation or Geo::MagneticAngle. Geo, because that top level exists and contains many related modules; the rest because those are what the Ordnance Survey -- reputedly the best map makers in the world -- call it.

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Re^2: CPAN distribution naming recommendations
by stevieb (Canon) on Jun 03, 2017 at 02:37 UTC

    Thank you. I especially appreciate the research put in, and the references supplied.

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