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Re: Bug#559524: ITP: libleocharre-perl -- Bundle of several modules in the LEOCHARRE:: namespace



-=| Jonathan Yu, Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:55:24PM -0500 |=-
> Basically, the author of Wordpress::XMLRPC requires his own helper
> modules, which may be used in several distributions (since he produces
> many of them). However, I'm hesitant to create multiple packages for
> them because:
> 
>   1. These packages are probably only ever going to be used by Leo Charre
>   2. These packages are coded poorly (they export random functions into
>      the main namespace)

Nice.

>   3. The packages contain very small portions of code
> 
> I'd even consider patching Wordpress::XMLRPC with these functions; however,
> I don't think the patch would be sustainable in the long term.

Wound this address 2. above?

> There was some discussion on the pkg-perl list:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2009/11/msg00065.html
> 
> Useful suggestions are gladly accepted and appreciated. Please give me a
> less crappy alternative. I beg of you. PLEASE.

File RM: bug on libwordpress-xmlrpc-perl. Less bad code = less 
problems in the long term.

-- 
dam

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