From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T01:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby stay ahead ?

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Mark Thomas <mark@thomaszone.com> wrote:

> There's no doubt that CPAN is a great resource. These are a few of its
> highlights:

> 2. A module namespace convention that helps one know what the module
> does, rather than 'cute' names (Test::MockClass vs. Mocha,
> PDF::ReportWriter vs. prawn, etc)

There is a reason Prawn has a cute name.  It's not ready yet.   As the
current maintainer of PDF::Writer (more like janitor), I did not want
to create confusion by putting Prawn into the PDF namespace until I
felt it was production ready.   When Prawn reaches 1.0, it will at the
very least be aliased to PDF::Document.

So without arguing your main point, Prawn is an example in which this
was intentional, not coincidental.

-greg