[arch-general] Several advices about Perl Package Packaging Standards

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Jeremiah Dodds
<jeremiah.dodds at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd assume it was a library for interfacing with spamassasin from perl code.

bingo ...

<lang>-<lib/app/*> == binding/interface/bridge/etc/etc ... this is the
defacto scheme that extends far beyond cpan.

i would have naturally thought the same thing, and been even more
confused to learn otherwise.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:58 PM, <techlivezheng at gmail.com> wrote:
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> even if the project has its own home page,and the cpan will link to the project's real
> homepage if exits.

i don't understand; why would anything _ever_ trump the projects
official page?  who the <expletive deleted> is CPAN anyway ;-)

disclaimer: i don't know much about the perl community as i only dip
into perl when the need arises, but this feels 99.2% wrong to me.

C Anthony