[PBP-pm] Reviewing PBP recommended modules?

[C. Garrett Goebel]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Karen J. Cravens wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, C. Garrett Goebel wrote:
>
> CGG>CPAN being what it is... how do you suggest someone find modules which
> CGG>bill themselves as PBP conformant?
>
> Most emphatically:  by some other way than namespace.

What other way?


> I really, really, really don't want to have modules leaping out
> from under my code merely because they became PBP conformant.

Refactoring a module without breaking backward compatibility could be fed
as a set of patches to the module's maintainer. Assuming they're willing
to take them: no name changes involved.

Non-backward compatible refactorings would break existing code. This is
clearly an unacceptable option unless the module's maintainer defines a
clear schedule of depreciating one interface in favor of another (like POE
does);

cheers,

Garrett