OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du lundi 24 mars 2008, vers
15:53, Justin B Rye <jbr@edlug.org.uk> disait:
> Okay.
> <rant mode=futile>
> I've never understood how a Perl module can have a canonical name
> that isn't the namespace identifier of the Perl-package, especially
> when it isn't a CPAN tarball or Debian package name either. Why is
> "lib" part of the name? If they want it to be called Whisker, why
> didn't they just set it up so that you "use Whisker"? And yes, I
> remember being particularly annoyed when I first encountered LWP
> a.k.a. libwww-perl; "use WWW" would even be easier to type!
> </rant>
In this particular case, there is a program called whisker that uses
libwhisker. This may explain why lib is part of the name.
> All of those kinds of name are like filesystem paths: fixed strings
> which might need to be quoted as input to case-sensitive scripts,
> and which are therefore commonly allowed to resist sentence-initial
> capitalisation. But "libwhisker" if it's a separate label is a
> proper noun (like "Perl") which you'd expect to be capitalised, or
> at least to obey the normal punctuation rules for English sentences
> (compare "van der Hulst", which becomes "Van der Hulst" in initial
> position).
So Libwhisker ? Or LibWhisker as you first proposed to help to know that
we should type "use LW2".
>> Description: Perl module geared for HTTP testing
>> This package provides libwhisker 2 (LW2), a flexible, portable and
>> compact Perl module implementing fast and small replacements to the
> s/compact/self-contained/
>> usual HTTP testing functions, as available in LWP, URI, HTML::Parser,
>> MIME::Base64, etc without any external dependency.
> In principle "etc." needs a stop, but lets say "and so on".
> That has to be "...dependencies", or preferably:
> MIME::Base64, and so on with no external dependencies.
> Except libnet-ssleay-perl for SSL, that is?
You are right. Since we replace compact/contained by self-contained, I
can remove this part of the sentence :
Description: Perl module geared for HTTP testing
This package provides LibWhisker 2 (LW2), a flexible, portable and
self-contained Perl module implementing fast and small replacements to
the usual HTTP testing functions, as available in LWP, URI,
HTML::Parser, MIME::Base64, etc.
It supports:
- HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1;
- persistent connections (with keep-alives);
- proxying;
- anti-IDS features;
- SSL (through libnet-ssleay-perl);
- chunked encoding;
- basic and NTLM authentication.
Thanks for your input.
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