[cgiapp] [Announce] CGI::Application::Plugin::Email

[Lyle]

Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
>   
>>  Very easy lazy loaded emailing based on Email::Stuff (with it's new Pure
>> Perl dependency options).
>>     
>
> I know you mean well with this, but trivial wrappers around other
> modules described as plugins is the kind of thing that made me stop
> taking Catalyst seriously.  I mean, you could do this sort of plugin
> for basically everything on CPAN (and Catalyst did).
>   

Considering that almost everything is already on CPAN, then most plugins 
are likely to be wrappers, adding extra benefits like lazy loading and 
framework specific functions. It would be wrong to try and recreate 
things that are already tried and tested on CPAN.

Plugins that initially just add lazy loading, will likely grow to take 
advantage of of other modules and create more framework specific features.

For example C::A::P::I18N is a lot more than a wrapper around 
Locale::Maketext::Simple, and another plugin I haven't released yet for 
Date and Time methods has already had extra C::A functions added.

> If you were to extract the lazy-loading code into a sort of generic
> plugin module that can wrap anything and then give Email::Stuff as a
> SYNOPSIS example, that would be more interesting.
>   

I've been thinking this method would work for a lot of modules, although 
for some it's a bit more tricky (look at C::A::P::YAML).


Lyle