Bug #96219 for beancounter: dist filename doesn't match distname

On 4 June 2014 at 12:47, Neil_Bowers via RT wrote: | Wed Jun 04 12:47:30 2014: Request 96219 was acted upon. | Transaction: Ticket created by NEILB | Queue: beancounter | Subject: dist filename doesn't match distname | Broken in: 0.8.9 | Severity: Normal | Owner: EDD | Requestors: NEILB@cpan.org | Status: new | Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96219 > | | | Hi Dirk, | | Many tools determine the distribution name for a dist from the release name, using CPAN::DistnameInfo. Using this you on your dist, you get 'beancounter', but the dist name in the metadata is set to Finance-BeanCounter, which is the name you'd expect to see, based on the module name. It's a bit of a mess of my making. There is command-line frontend 'beancounter', there is also a module Finance-BeanCounter. I think I even changed back and forth once. What would you suggest is more common? Dirk | I created a list of all releases where the dist name in the metadata doesn't match the dist name in the release file name: | | https://gist.github.com/neilbowers/10060761 | | That's how I came across your dist. | | Can you release an update to correct this please, as it will help people who are trying to automatically process all dists on CPAN? | | If you don't have time right now, or have lost interest in this dist, or Perl, then I'd be happy to do a release. I would also resolve the other ticket, and make the distribution 'CPANTS clean'. My PAUSE id is NEILB, if you're happy to give me co-maint permissions. | | Cheers, | Neil -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org

Based on the module name is much more common, and in the future might be required by PAUSE, so I'd suggest you go with that. A key bit of the reasoning: module names are guaranteed unique (for some definition of "guaranteed unique" :-) by PAUSE, because the PAUSE permissions model is based around module (well, package) permissions. Cheers, Neil