https://hashbang.ca/tag/kentnl Recent content in Kentnl on Hashbang.ca Hugo en-us Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:58:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/another-word-on-namespaces Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:58:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/another-word-on-namespaces/ <p>Kent Frederic&rsquo;s <a href="http://blog.fox.geek.nz/2011/01/making-minting-profile-as-cpanized-dist.html">recent post</a> about <code>Dist::Zilla</code> minting profiles was a great overview of the subject, but because I try to follow best practices, I was struck by the section &ldquo;A word on namespaces.&rdquo;</p> <p>Kent recommends that if you&rsquo;re making an author pluginbundle, you should name it <code>Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::$CPANID</code>. This extra bit of namespacing makes life easier for many people in many ways. I was immediately convinced that he was right, and <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/_doherty/status/29700267352006657">moved</a> my author stuff into appropriate author namespaces.</p>