On Jan 19, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Terrence Brannon wrote:
BTW - What's with the Catalog::* namespace? You building something interesting you want to share with the rest of the group? :)
I suppose this is a catalog of lazy loaders so I named it as such. The CPAN as magazne idea was shot down, but I still like using POD and h2xs to cobble up articles.
As I said when this subject came up a couple of months ago, I really like the idea of publishing these catalogs on CPAN for cross-indexing purposes.
I think that finding relevant modules on CPAN and selecting between them can be daunting, and this is an area where interested groups like ours can really contribute to the community. Having catalogs like this indexed by search.cpan.org should help people to find more of these modules even if they're using different search terms.
Here are some similar existing documents which are candidates for being converted into or replaced by Catalog::* POD files:
http://poop.sourceforge.net/
http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-SQLEngine/SQLEngine/Docs/Related.pod
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-MakeMethods/MakeMethods/Docs/ RelatedModules.pod
If this does head towards CPAN, I would encourage you to simplify the distribution directory, removing the tests and Exporter boilerplate; all you really need in the tarball is a single directory with the Makefile.PL and the LazyLoaders.pod.
-Simon
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