Re: Postgres perl module namespace

On 8/10/21 9:37 PM, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>
>> use PgTest::Utils;
>> use PgTest::PostgresNode;
> Checking CPAN, it seems there are three older modules with names starting with "Postgres":
>
> Postgres
> Postgres::Handler
> Postgres::Handler::HTML
>
> It would be confusing to combine official PostgreSQL modules with those third party ones, so perhaps we can claim the PostgreSQL namespace for official project modules. How about:
>
> PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster
> PostgreSQL::Test::Lib
> PostgreSQL::Test::Utils
>
> and then if we ever wanted to have official packages for non-test purposes, we could start another namespace under PostgreSQL.
>

If we were publishing them on CPAN that would be reasonable. But we're
not, nor are we likely to, I believe. I'd rather not have to add two
level of directory hierarchy for this, and this also seems a bit
long-winded:

    my $node = PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster->new('nodename');

cheers

andrew

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