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How unexpected. (Score:1)
If you don't like *::Tiny, don't use them. If you think they suck, submit a patch. If *::Tiny does what you need, without installed 42 other modules, (most of which in the XML namespace have various levels of compile headaches and lib versioning issues) then awesome.
Really, what's the big deal again? It feels like quibbling about calling a non-pedigree cat a feline just because it's not a purebred.
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CPAN names are rare. They're first-come, first-served. Thus it seems rude to me to claim a namespace for a distribution that doesn't actually do what the name claims.
There's tremendous potential for confusion among the vast majority of CPAN users who've never read use Perl. That seems, to me, highly unfair.
I'm also much less of a fan of bandying about strong assertions such as "Oh yeah, well no real user ever really uses this feature or that feature" without some
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Actually uploading them would be a huge mistake. Perhaps under
Acme::, but not in the near future.