On Feb 24, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Dave Morriss wrote:
On 23/02/07, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave Morriss wrote:
> Question 1: Will I need to build my own plugin to achieve what I
want,
> or is there another way?
It's unlikely that you'll want to use a plugin. Plugins should be
reserved for things that modify Catalyst's usual request cycle.
Pagecache, Static::Simple, and ConfigLoader are good examples of
plugins; Prototype is a bad example.
I thought, based on the way C::P::DateTime is put together, that
plugins are also used as a way of making non-Catalyst modules
available in the Catalyst namespace. From the way I interpret the
documentation you referred to I reckon I _could_ do something like
that. You seem to be recommending against it.
Catalyst::Plugin::DateTime is a very good example of something that
has no business being a plugin. It pollutes the namespace with not
one, but two useless methods (that do the exact same thing, no less)
and gains nothing from being a plugin, it could very easily have been
a module (in fact, take a look at the source, it does almost nothing
anyway).
--
Jason Kohles
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http://www.jasonkohles.com/
"A witty saying proves nothing." -- Voltaire
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