I'm working on a parser, and it's necessary for me to allow for "variants". By this I mean things like: implemented with XS, or without; targeting Perl 5, or C, or Parrot, etc., etc.

The most obvious way of doing this is via the CPAN namespace, in which case I'd wonder which naming schemes seem to be Best Practice. Or is there another way to go?

I'm sure a number of CPAN modules already are present in multiple variants (certainly XS versus non-XS for environments without compilers), and I could just look around, but I'm not sure how to tell the ones whose "variant" schemes are tolerated for historical reasons, from those which represent the latest wisdom on this matter.

thanks, jeffrey kegler

In reply to How to implement CPAN module variants by Jeffrey Kegler

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