On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 10:10:55PM -0400, srl wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Jesse wrote:
>
> > > The only ones of these that I think are actually being used by more
> > > than one person is Date::ICal and perhaps Date::Leapyear.
> >
> > If it's in CPAN, that's never a safe assumption. :/
>
> I think he meant "module author" when he said "person".
>
> > > What have others of you done when you've changed the name of a module?
> >
> > IME, the standard thing to do is to package up a set of wrappers and stubs
> > to ease transitions for folks with code that uses the old namespaces....
> > optionally screaming loudly every time they get used.
>
> Hm, that sounds like a sane idea. put a BEGIN block in that bitches
> if you're using the old module instead of the new module, but
> otherwise just wrapper the old module.
Huh?
What's the point of that? To even get such a module, you need to upgrade.
If you don't upgrade, you still have to old, working, code.
Abigail
