On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jesse wrote:
> > The only ones of these that I think are actually being used by more
> > than one person is Date::ICal and perhaps Date::Leapyear.
>
> If it's in CPAN, that's never a safe assumption. :/
I think he meant "module author" when he said "person".
> > What have others of you done when you've changed the name of a module?
>
> IME, the standard thing to do is to package up a set of wrappers and stubs
> to ease transitions for folks with code that uses the old namespaces....
> optionally screaming loudly every time they get used.
Hm, that sounds like a sane idea. put a BEGIN block in that bitches
if you're using the old module instead of the new module, but
otherwise just wrapper the old module.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone say what the standard Perlish
thing to do is, though.
srl
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