Re: LWP version 0.01 released
Reinier Post (reinpost@win.tue.nl)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 10:33:06 +0200 (MET DST)
You (Martijn Koster) write:
>
>In message <199507171433.QAA03221@bergen.oslonett.no>, Gisle Aas writes:
>
>> > : LWP is a library of perl5 modules for WWW access, i.e. it allows you
>> > : to build WWW user agents.
[confusing name, say some]
>In the beginning was libwww-perl-0.40, then came libwww-perl-5-0.1.
Still OK :-)
>Then our tongues became completely muddled, and it got shortened to
>LWP.
I personally like names that give you a rough idea of functionality. With
lwp-5-1.tar.gz
you really depend on a separate README, or users simply are not going to try
and unpack it. With libwww-perl-5.1.tar.gz they know exactly what they get.
>It did not become WWW, because this is only one particular interface,
Really? Isn't the intention to be a complete libwww for Perl? Is anybody
else doing this? The name seems perfect. (Except it's too long.)
>and we are merely mortal souls not worhty of the name WWW.
Contact TBL Himself, and He may grant permission :)
>I agree it can cause confusion. We'll have to ponder alternatives.
>LibWeb.pm? WebLib.pm? Anything more exotic?
How about
libwww.pm-0.1.tar.gz
for the next release?
BTW I'm impressed with your efforts, and eager to try it out. But
we're still on Perl4 locally. I intend to switch as soon as MOMspider and
wwwstat are ported from libwww-0.40. No time to do it myself in the near
future.
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