[Melbourne-pm] CPAN module
Scott Penrose
scottp at dd.com.au
Wed Mar 8 17:03:30 PST 2006
On 09/03/2006, at 10:13, Mathew Robertson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I use a CPAN module called HTML::Template, which is used as a web-page
> templating engine (in a similar vein to Template-Toolkit).
>
> I have made some changes to increase its functionality - which amounts
> to about 20% of the code (ie: not a small patch). I have suggested
> that
> some of these changes be added to the real module, but the developer
> isn't interested.
>
> Since I dont really want to do a complete fork of the code, as the
> existing community is quite lively... The question is, is there a way
> to release a modified version into CPAN?
No not really, and that would not be fair either - you can't have two
bosses of one bit of code.
But you have already touched on the answer - fork it and release as a
new module.
eg:
HTML::TemplateX
Or maybe
HTML::Template::Extended
Once you do that - and that is fair and safe - you can then encourage
the use of your changes. If the changes are good and acceptable, then
people will use that module instead - eventually it will become the
standard, and probably even get incorporated or replace the old one.
This is not unprecedented - quite common actually :-)
Scott
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