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From:
Bill Ward
Date:
February 7, 2011 13:14
Subject:
Re: best practices for module renaming
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AANLkTikbco4h2WwnG5+Z4jLstNh6Asv5os5oZeD8pajV@mail.gmail.com
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Xavier Noria wrote:
>
>  Hi, I am the author of Net::FluidDB, which let's you talk to FluidDB.
>>
>> FluidDB has been renamed to Fluidinfo, and I should rename the module
>> in accordance. Is there a recommended way to do this? Or should I just
>> upload a different distribution and document the rename?
>>
>
> Yes to your last question.
>
> You could also upload one last version of Net::FluidDB and update its docs
> to point to the new name.
>
> You probably also want to keep Net::FluidDB around as a wrapper module so
that you don't break backward compatibility.

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