I see today that Shin Honda released File-Stat. Apparently, he didn't see Jarkko's File-stat. Arghh...
Actually, I didn't realize that module names were case sensitive when it came to storing them in CPAN. Maybe they shouldn't be to prevent just this sort of nonsense.
Re:that'll break case-insensitive filesystems!
djberg96 on 2003-02-24T20:20:02
Good point. This sort of thing could really mess up MS Windows users if left unchecked over time (and make a mockery of namespaces and name selection in general), assuming continual abuse.Time for the CPAN cops to step in I think. You don't wanna mess with the CPAN cops - they play hardball.
Re:that'll break case-insensitive filesystems!
rafael on 2003-02-24T21:04:17
You can have File::Stat and File::stat, installed in different locations, on a case-insensitive filesystem. However you can write use File::stat; and have File::Stat loaded.At some point during the 5.7 development phase, a warning was added to detect that kind of things, but it was then proven unpractical. The curious minds can check the explanatory comment about this now-vanished warning in op.c (function Perl_utilize) in the perl 5.8.0 sources.
