Re: Design philosophy (was Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Rothenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/25/2004 2:26 AM brian d foy wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Robert Rothenberg wrote: I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system is a distributed, open-source isbn-lookup system for bibliographic data. Business::ISBN does much more than that. Why not put all the ISBN stuff in one place? Looking at the docs and source forge page, Business::ISBN seems to just deal with ISBN information. Have I missed something? One of my pet-peeves with many CPAN modules is that they try to be everything for everybody, which means they make it harder for developers to customize to their needs. it's not the ease of developers that concern me. the truly popular modules have been the ones that pull things together for the users, like DBI and LWP. -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Robert Rothenberg wrote: I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system is a distributed, open-source isbn-lookup system for bibliographic data. Business::ISBN does much more than that. Why not put all the ISBN stuff in one place? -- brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information about a particular book. have you thought about working with Ed Summers to put that into Business::ISBN ? I have joined the isbnsearch-devel list that maintains the software for isbnreference and have brought up the idea on that list. I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system is a distributed, open-source isbn-lookup system for bibliographic data. It accomplishes the same thing as Net::Amazon only using public domain data.
Design philosophy (was Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference)
Looking at the docs and source forge page, Business::ISBN seems to just deal with ISBN information. Have I missed something? Which I think is fine: I rather like the philosophy that a tool should do just one thing (or maybe a few closely-related things) really well. It's just a matter of plugging in the tools one needs. I'd not be happy if I wanted to use Business::ISBN with Net::Amazon or one of the WWW::Scraper::ISBN modules or something else, but had extra stuff related to ISBNSearch (using LWP, and maybe Net::Z3950) and MARC format processing and a lot of bibliographic information that has nothing to do with ISBNs, except that it's a key to search for this information. One of my pet-peeves with many CPAN modules is that they try to be everything for everybody, which means they make it harder for developers to customize to their needs. So they write yet another module to do X On 7/25/2004 2:26 AM brian d foy wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Robert Rothenberg wrote: I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system is a distributed, open-source isbn-lookup system for bibliographic data. Business::ISBN does much more than that. Why not put all the ISBN stuff in one place?
Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information about a particular book. isbnreference.org is an open-source ISBN lookup service. As far as I know, there is no Perl module which uses isbnreference.org, although there are modules to support the Library of Congress Net::Z3950 protocol that isbnreference.org uses.
Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
Robert Rothenberg wrote: I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information about a particular book. isbnreference.org is an open-source ISBN lookup service. As far as I know, there is no Perl module which uses isbnreference.org, although there are modules to support the Library of Congress Net::Z3950 protocol that isbnreference.org uses. IIRC WebService::* emerged by consensus as the new and improved TLN for this kind of thing. Dave Rolsky is the 1st, with WebService::StreetMapLink
Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
* Jim Cromie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-24 15:31]: Dave Rolsky is the 1st, with WebService::StreetMapLink Uh, hardly. I get 13 hits for distributions with webservice on search.cpan.org at the time of this writing, and all but two or three are older than ::StreetMapLink. Regards, -- Aristotle If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough.
Re: Module name: WWW-ISBNReference
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Rothenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on a module that can query isbnreference.org for information about a particular book. have you thought about working with Ed Summers to put that into Business::ISBN ? -- brian d foy, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
