From: Thomas Sawyer <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T22:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

Gregory Brown wrote:
> 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.

There's no need to replace.

  Prawn::PDF::Writer

Then a user can

  include Prawn

That's a solid practice.

T.
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