Looking at the docs and source forge page, Business::ISBN seems to just deal with ISBN information. Have I missed something?
Which I think is fine: I rather like the philosophy that a tool should do just one thing (or maybe a few closely-related things) really well. It's just a matter of plugging in the tools one needs.
I'd not be happy if I wanted to use Business::ISBN with Net::Amazon or one of the WWW::Scraper::ISBN modules or something else, but had extra stuff related to ISBNSearch (using LWP, and maybe Net::Z3950) and MARC format processing and a lot of bibliographic information that has nothing to do with ISBNs, except that it's a key to search for this information.
One of my pet-peeves with many CPAN modules is that they try to be everything for everybody, which means they make it harder for developers to customize to their needs. So they write yet another module to do X....
On 7/25/2004 2:26 AM brian d foy wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
I don't think it's appropriate to merge with Business::ISBN, which just deals with ISBN data. The isbnsearch system is a distributed, open-source isbn-lookup system for bibliographic data.Business::ISBN does much more than that. Why not put all the ISBN stuff in one place?
