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From:
Tim Bunce
Date:
March 8, 2002 18:10
Subject:
Re: CPAN::SDKMaker
Message ID:
20020308200439.P33554@dansat.data-plan.com
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:41:29AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Tim Bunce [Tim.Bunce@pobox.com] quoth:
> *>
> *>I'd prefer a word rather than a new acronym like CBK.
> 
> You are dashing my vision that everyting in computing will eventually
> become a stream of acronymic expression. :) 

Ooops, sorry Elaine -HFB- Ashton :)

> *>And I think 'Bundle' is mostly associated with the very lightweight
> *>Bundle::Foo specification files. So, s we're talking about something
> *>actually embeds other distributions, I'd prefer Distro over Bundle.
> 
> I thought Bundle might be mentioned since it is similar to Bundle:: 
> but, in the sense that a Distribution is a collection of one or more
> modules "Distro" may actually be more accurate.
> 
> *>So CPAN::BundleBuilder. Umm, sounds kind'a snappy.
> 
> CPAN::DistroBuilder isn't bad either. This is why I hated plant taxonomy
> :) 

Argh, as Stas points out, I meant CPAN::DistroBuilder anyway :)

Tim.

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