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

[Joost van Baal]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:34:49AM -0500, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:09:57PM +0100, E.L. Willighagen wrote:
> > > (for --prefix=/usr , that is).  I am afraid this will, at one day, lead
> > > to nameclashes.

> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> We should only use the Lire:: namespace if the module is specific
> to Lire. Egon, did you know if the AwStat guy intend to use that
> module? If the AwStat project starts to reuse that code, then it might
> be interesting to use an appropriate module like:
> 
> Log::HTTP::
> 
> All log parsing modules are under Log::
> 
> If AwStats doesn't intend to reuse it, we might as well use 
> the Lire:: namespace. (And maybe move the modules under www/lib)

Early september, Egon wrote he was heading towards a situation where
AWStats makes use of the same modules.  I haven't heard anything from
Laurent Destailleur, the AWStats maintainer.  Is there any progress
made, or should we forget about this?

On CPAN, I found out about the existence of HTTP::BrowserDetect and
Parse::Syslog, it indeed might be a good idea to start a general Log::
namespace.

Some notes about naming are on
http://cpan.valueclick.com/modules/00modlist.long.html#ID2_Guidelinesf ,
2.5 (or any other CPAN mirror, of course).  No strict guidelines here,
though.  It's Perl :) .

Main issue is, I guess: do we want to keep shipping the modules as
separate packages?  If not, we'd better go for Lire::WWW .  Its
functionality is not really tied to Lire, otoh, maintaining it as a
separate package gives a bit of overhead.

Anyway, I guess I'll just upload the .deb as it is now.  3 weeks delay is
enough.

Bye,

Joost

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