When I have something to share, and I see something that comes within the realm- but is clearly written by a javascript monkey overdosing on c bananas stolen from a high school with the mentality that OO means there's one subroutine that returns one blessed hash and no other methods in the class- Think of a namespace at least with two::depths... I would choose another namespace.

Something funny happened. I made a module about a year ago, I put it up on cpan. A few days ago I got a kind notice from a fellow perl hacker notifying me that someone else had 'officially' registered the namespace, and he suggested I change my namespace.

Indeed I didn't even petition to register the namespace. Yes, the author registering this namespace had all the right to do so. I just would feel like a real ass doing this to someone else. If they coded the 'Linux' module and it was clearly one of 'those' aforementioned packages- ok.. maybe.. But 'CGI::PathInfo'?

So, next time I see Useful::Thing package as unregistered namespace, it's all good to just request the namespace? This is not seen by the community as an assinine thing to do?

update

As corion stated, my package is 2007, the other package is 2005. I made a mistake. I actually uploaded a package whose namespace was already taken. Somehow I let that slip, and the conflict came about a few months later.

Fortunately I'm using CVS and gnu/linux and I have no scruples running mass regexes accross the board. New package is CGI::Scriptpaths. I fixed dependencies by other packages I have and updated those also.

In reply to (OT) cpan love gone wrong by leocharre

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