Namespace suggestions (Adobe::HFF)?

friedo has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm working on a module that outputs files in the Adobe Highlight File (PDF) format. These files tell the Acrobat plugin what words to highlight in a PDF which is being displayed. This is useful if you have an application that searches PDFs and you want to highlight search words.

Anyway, since the format is Adobe-specific, I thought I'd call it Adobe::HFF. But there isn't anything on CPAN that begins with Adobe:: so I don't know if that's appropriate. I could call it PDF::HFF, but that seems like it might be a bit too general.

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Re: Namespace suggestions (Adobe::HFF)? by injunjoel (Priest) on Jan 18, 2006 at 19:48 UTC
Greetings, PDF::Adobe::HFF or PDF::AdobeHFF perhaps? That way users will still know its Adobe^(TM) specific. -InjunJoel "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -Galileo	[reply]
Re: Namespace suggestions (Adobe::HFF)? by SamCG (Hermit) on Jan 18, 2006 at 19:52 UTC
I don't know, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't seem too general, and it's a rough analog to PDF::HFF.	[reply]
Re: Namespace suggestions (Adobe::HFF)? by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2006 at 03:33 UTC
How about simply PDF::Highlight? I'm guessing that most people will know that they want to highlight words in a PDF without knowing how that actually happens. Spelling out "highlight" and leaving off the HFF let's them find the module with the same keywords they might put into a search engine. :) You might also like to ask this question on the module admins list, modules@perl.org. There are quite a few people there that can give you good advice about module names. :) -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com> Subscribe to The Perl Review	[reply]