From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T05:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Mark Thomas <ruby@thomaszone.com> wrote:

> Module authors tend to use Module::Starter which is just like hoe, in
> that it generates a nice module skeleton, ready to submit to CPAN.
> Another thing I noticed about module authors is that they tend to use
> more pragmatic, namespaced module names, i.e. they would tend to use a
> name like "PDF::Simple" instead of "prawn". Though this may be due to
> the fact that 14,000 modules require a bit more organization and
> findability.

There is a (hair brained) reason why I chose the name.  It is to keep
Prawn out of the PDF namespace until it is ready to replace the
current defacto standard PDF::Writer library.

Details at:
http://groups.google.com/group/prawn-ruby/msg/f6aee1d625600146