Re: LWP version 0.01 released

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You (Martijn Koster) write:

>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.

And it's the approach taken by libwww!  (Henrik F-N recommends it whenever
he can.)

>There may be others. So IMHO we need a name for this particular approach.

'HTTP proxying'?

>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.

Probably something like 'the Web common library for Perl, uhhh,
latest version'.  How do people pronounce WWWLibrary_2.17.tar.gz?

>compare to libweb:
>
>  lib-web-dot-pee-em nought point 1 dot tar dot g zed

libweb is fine; it may turn out to be pronounced like that, anyway.

-- 
Reinier Post						 reinpost@win.tue.nl
'another sucker without libweb pee-em'

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