On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:26:30AM +0200, Abigail wrote:
> > When existing application code uses a module in the old namespace and it
> > is dropped onto a box with a perl install that doesn't already have the
> > old module. Not making existing applications need to be rewritten just
> > because we want to shuffle modules around the namespace is a win.
>
>
> So, this application cannot find the module. What BEGIN block is it
> then supposed to run?
>
Let's say the old module was Foo::Bar and the new module is Foo::Algorithms::Bar;
In the distribution for Foo::Algorithms::Bar, we include a wrapper "Foo/Bar.pm"
as well as "Foo/Algorithms/Bar.pm". Foo::Bar would include the aforementioned
BEGIN block and the apropriate wrappers to hand everything off to
Foo::Algorithms::Bar. Or, if we wanted to, we could upload one last version of
Foo::Bar containing our wrappers which depends on the new package...
>
>
> Abigail
>
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