Postgres perl module namespace - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

While solving a problem with the Beta RPMs, I noticed that they export
our perl test modules as capabilities like this:

    [andrew@f34 x86_64]$ rpm -q --provides -p
    postgresql14-devel-14-beta1_PGDG.fc34.x86_64.rpm | grep ^perl
    perl(PostgresNode)
    perl(PostgresVersion)
    perl(RecursiveCopy)
    perl(SimpleTee)
    perl(TestLib)


I don't think we should be putting this stuff in a global namespace like
that. We should invent a namespace that's not likely to conflict with
other people, like, say, 'PostgreSQL::Test' to put these modules. That
would require moving some code around and adjusting a bunch of scripts,
but it would not be difficult. Maybe something to be done post-14?
Meanwhile I would suggest that RPM maintainers exclude both requires and
provides for these five names.


cheers


andrew

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Andrew Dunstan
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