lire installs stuff in /usr/share/perl5/WWW

[E.L. Willighagen]

Joost van Baal wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, Lire installs
> 
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/UserAgent/Robot.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/UserAgent/Browser.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/UserAgent/OS.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/UserAgent/Language.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Domain/Robot.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Domain/Country.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Filename/Attack.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/UserAgent.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Domain.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Filename.pm
> 
> (for --prefix=/usr , that is).  I am afraid this will, at one day, lead
> to nameclashes.  E.g. /usr/share/perl5/WWW/RobotRules.pm is installed by
> the perl module found in e.g. the debian package
> interpreters/libwww-perl , and /usr/share/perl5/WWW/Search.pm is
> installed by net/libwww-search-perl .  Does the functionality of the
> modules justify claiming the WWW namespace?  I suggest moving it to a
> place somewhat deeper in the perl module tree, like e.g.
> 
>  WWW/Lire/
>  WWW/AwStats/
>  WWW/LogReport/
>  Lire/WWW/
> 
> or choose some other way to reflect the fact that these modules are
> mainly functional for parsing logfiles (or HTTP requests, that is.)
> (hmm...  WWW/HTTPParser/ ?)
> 
> BTW, on http://sourceforge.net/projects/logreport we're offering
> WWW::Useragent 0.3.2.  This should need to get updated, once we change
> installation locations.  And we'd have to update the way we refer to the
> modules in our perl scripts, of course.
> 
> I'd like to wait uploading Francis' Lire .deb, untill we've agreed on
> this issue.  (The last released .deb lacks the perl5/WWW stuff.)

I did never get around to registering the WWW:: namespace with CPAN...
Lire/WWW would indeed be better.

Egon

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