Re: LWP version 0.01 released

Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
Tue, 18 Jul 1995 09:49:14 +0100 

In message <199507180833.KAA21845@wsinis10.win.tue.nl>, Reinier Post writes:

> 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.

OK, so we all agree lwp stinks :-)

> >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.)

Ehr, is the last time we had this debate archived somewhere? :-) The
point is that the main model in libwww-perl is that all requests to
any protocol module are forced into an HTTP straightjacket. This makes
things very easy, consistent, and nice, but is only one approach.
There may be others. So IMHO we need a name for this particular approach.
In honour of its architect (hi Roy), I reckon we should keep it
libwww-perl'ish.

> >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?

The pm may be a good idea.

Roy reported severe tongue muddling with libwww-perl 0.40. Your
suggestion would become

  lib-double-u-double-u-double-u-dot-pee-em nought point 1 dot tar dot g zed.
 
or the deprecated (?)

  lib-wuw-wuw-wuw-dot-pee-em nought point 1 dot tar dot g zed

compare to libweb:

  lib-web-dot-pee-em nought point 1 dot tar dot g zed

[OK, so I may have lost on web.nexor.co.uk vs. www.whereever.com, but
here is my second chance!]

Seriously, I'm not really fussed, as long as it works.

> 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.

First of all they should both work OK with Perl 5, but 4 and 5 quite
happily coexist.
 
-- Martijn
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