Alexandre Jousset wrote on 9/20/07 11:41 AM:
Hello Matt,
Matt S Trout wrote:
Feel free to ask me any question you want.
Why haven't you submitted patches to the existing C-C-Rose?
Any module called '-Simple' usually means "there was an existing module
that worked but I'm too lazy to patch it" - please justify why that isn't
the case here :)
Well, I wasn't meaning that kind of question but hey, I said "any
question you want" ;-)...
Seriously, this is of course a good question, so here is my answer.
I'm sure I haven't your experience but for me (and also for Peter
Karman, C::C::Rose author), the suffix "::Simple" (suggested by him)
means "Take all that [what already exists, i.e. Catalyst and Rose] and
make it simpler to use together".
Alexandre,
Actually, I had suggested you use ::Simple because in your original email to me,
(a) you had indicated you intended to use C::C::Rose, but with an API similar to
the FormBuilder philosophy, and (b) you had a working title of
C::C::Rose::FormManager, which I thought would be misleading, since all the
existing C::C::Rose::* classes also manage forms.
As you indicate below, you don't use any of the C::C::Rose code, design or
philosophy, so sharing the namespace seems misleading at the very least.
So I'd prefer it if you used a difference namespace altogether. I believe the
latest best practice recommendation is to use the CatalystX top-level space.
Perhaps something like CatalystX::RHTMLOManager or similar.
In fact I don't even use its modules in mine since the goals are not
the same and the functionalities don't overlap. The key point is that
you can see it as the C::C::FormBuilder module reimplemented for Rose
(and that was really the case).
At first, on Peter's advice, I looked at C::C::Rose::* but I did not
found anything relevant for what I was trying to do.
I'd like to encourage you in your efforts at making the Rose projects easier to
use with Catalyst. Since you've got a different approach to what "easy" means
than I do, starting with a namespace that clearly delineates your project from
mine seems to be in your best interest.
pek
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Peter Karman . http://peknet.com/ . [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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