On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 00:36, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, James Tillman wrote: > > > I may have already mentioned this in the past, but I suggest taking a > > look at modinfo.sf.net. An example of a project that uses this system > > is guido.sf.net. It allows you provide metadata about inherited modules > > and function parameters, constructors, methods, properties, etc. It > > borrows heavily from the JavaBeans BeanInfo specification. > > > > The advantage to this system is that the metadata can be stored external > > to the module, and is only queried when it's desired, so you have no > > run-time overhead. > > This looks good. Maybe it should be renamed though because its > confusingly similar to Module::Info. >
Interesting. Module::Info must have slipped past me. I did ModInfo last year as a helper system for Guido, and at that time, I check CPAN thoroughly for similar stuff. Module::Info wasn't there at that time. The real package name of Modinfo is Devel::ModInfo, and since it is modeled after the BeanInfo API from JavaBeans, I'm not really interesting in changing the name unless it's required to get it into CPAN or something. jpt
