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Registering Namespaces

Ovid on 2004-08-03T15:17:18

I've noticed a number of CPAN authors have registered their namespaces. I see that this gets your module on the long Module list, but is this any particular benefit to registering?

Dubious

barbie on 2004-08-03T16:19:52

I registered my first couple of namespaces (July 2003) and they still don't feature :( This list is considered to outdated now, according to the Module Authors list. As it was being updated manually and all the cool kids now use search.cpan.org these days, no-one seems to have been bothered with keeping it up to date.

Re:Dubious

jonasbn on 2004-08-04T17:21:55

I got Games::Bingo registered in May 2003 if I recall correctly - I simply registered to get on the module list - too bad if this no longer is practised :-/

During registration you specify some flags indicating the status of your module etc.:

These are:

Development Stage

Support Level

Language Used

Interface Style

License

A.S.O.


This is all VERY useful information and I have met people having reservations about CPAN, simply because they cannot get a clear picture of the state of a module aso.

So this information and registration could be put to good use in my opinion - eh, what do we need to do? should we do something about it?

Re:Dubious

barbie on 2004-08-05T13:39:10

Yep did all that, but although they got posted to the modules list, the main file hasn't been updated :(