Re: Postgres perl module namespace

On 8/10/21 10:13 PM, Mark Dilger wrote:
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>> On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:11 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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>> 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
somethingthat 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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