[mplspm]: Module validity?

[Thomas Eibner]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 10:52:04PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Thomas Eibner wrote:
> 
> > You could bring it up on perlmonks.org or a similar discussion fora, like
> > NEWS:comp.lang.perl.modules (is that right?). I'm afraid though, that you
> > are not going to get much possitive additude if you're making yet another
> > templating module without really bringing something brilliantly new to
> > the module (not my own attitude, but mostly the attitude of people on
> > different mailinglists I've encountered).
> 
> That's cause there's too damn many templating modules _already_.  And
> that's _my_ attitude.  CPAN is filled with them.

That still doesn't mean that there's no room for innovative code.
 
> > > Can anyone relate any experience they've had in discussing their code in
> > > perl forums?  Has anyone ever been given the recommendation that they
> > > shouldn't upload their code??
> >
> > There have been a lot of people that have been told to find different
> > namespaces at least. I don't think many authors have been directly
> > forbidden to upload their modules (if any)
> 
> Nobody ever gets forbidden, and nobody has to change their namespace.  But
> if you want to get your module listed in the official module list on CPAN,
> it has to be "approved" by the modules at perl.org list.

I'm almost certain that there has been cases of someone just uploading
a module and interfeering with another modules namespace that HAD to
change their namespace (can't remember when I read in the modules at perl.org
archive). But of course noone can forbid you to call your module something
outside of CPAN, but it was kinda implied that he wanted to upload to
CPAN where he correctly need to have approval for the namespace. 
 
> That has nothing to do with being able to upload it.

Of course not.

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