[Catalyst] 124 Plugins on CPAN!

Jesse Sheidlower jester at panix.com
Sat Feb 11 18:07:49 CET 2006


On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:21:37PM -0000, Gavin Henry wrote:
> <quote who="Nathan Kurz">
> >
> > Remove the old ones if better ones are available.  The userbase is
> > still very small and soon will be much larger---cleaning it up now
> > will make life so much easier for that masses to come that it's worth
> > it.  It's not that removing them will stop existing sites from
> > running, just force them to do some rewriting if they want to upgrade.
> 
> Ok, once the new Pod is finished, we will have a nice list to cross things
> off from.

The problem is, we don't control all the plugins, so we can't remove
bad old ones if they're not from Team Catalyst.

Which is why C::M::Plugins needs to include them with a "deprecated"
or "use C::P::Foo" instead comments, even though this makes for a
large C::M::Plugins.

Jesse Sheidlower



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