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

[Egon Willighagen]

On Tuesday 8 January 2002 22:39, Joost van Baal wrote:
> 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:
> > > > 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::

That sounds very good.

> > 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?

My plan was to make a patch for AWStats to have it use the module, but i
did never get around to that too... actually, i might have forgotten about it
at the end, because of more important things...

> 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.

This would fit perfectly well in LogReports:
1. develop tools for log analysis
2. spread them
3. it would advertise the foundation more

> 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.

Ack.

Egon

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