Solutions Guide

[Eric Berg]

A little while ago in the thread where we talked about ways to raise the 
 profile of MP, I suggested that we could put together a MP Solutions 
Guide that would describe discrete groups of modules that can be used to 
accomplish specific tasks like Sessions, Logging, and stuff like that.

I took an initial pass at it per the Style Guide on the MP site, and 
would like to get it going while I've got the motifvation and time.

As an example, there are a number of ways to do sessions, and most of 
those has a group of related modules as well as back-end options.  I see 
this guide as providing logical groupings to help filter out all of the 
session options to discrete lists of modules that can be used as session 
mgmt. solutions, so instead of listing all of teh session-oriented 
modules, we could provide something like:

Apache::Session
[Back-ends]
- Apache::Session::MySQL
- Apache::Session::DBI
- Apache::Session::File
- Apache::Session::Oracle
- etc...
MasonX::Request::WithApache2Session
...
Apache::SessionX::Manager
...
Instead of duplicating the descriptions of each, I think we should 
provide links to the exsting information on each.

This will give users a domain to concentrate on so they can focus on the 
specific modules associated with one solution and ignore the others.  I 
often spend a lot of time looking when I'm starting on a new area of 
knowledge looking at 5 different sets of options before I understand the 
groupings for each solution.

What's next?  How can I get this set up as a project?
Thanks.
-Eric.
Eric Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.bergbrains.com
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