[Melbourne-pm] CPAN module

leif.eriksen@hpa.com.au leif.eriksen at hpa.com.au
Wed Mar 8 17:47:07 PST 2006


The decision to create a new namespace has already been made for you by
the H::T developer - he doesn't want your extra features in his
namespace, so you need another.

Did he give a reason - I suspect he felt the new features didn't fit
with his idea of what H::T should do. The doco and design seem to
indicate they have refined H::T to be exactly what they want.

L

-----Original Message-----
From: mathew.robertson at netratings.com.au
[mailto:mathew.robertson at netratings.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:32 PM
To: melbourne-pm at pm.org
Subject: Re: [Melbourne-pm] CPAN module

hmm... I was hoping there was something more akin to a 'developer tree' 
which would allow updates to a package, but not  be part of an 
"official" package.

Scott Penrose wrote:
>
> 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
> --* - *  http://www.osdc.com.au - Open Source Developers Conference *
- *
> Scott Penrose
> Open source developer
> http://linux.dd.com.au/
> scottp at dd.com.au
>
> Dismaimer: Open sauce usually ends up never coming out (of the
bottle).
>
> Please do not send me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
> Microsoft is not the answer. It's the question. And the answer is no.
>
>
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