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

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Lyle <webmaster at cosmicperl.com> wrote:
> 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.

No one is arguing for rewriting things that are 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.

The only thing I'm against is a wholesale duplication of huge parts of
CPAN's namespace as 10-line modules under CGI::Application::Plugin.
If you have unique integration and added value in a plugin, it makes
perfect sense.

- Perrin