Re: Plugins (was: AUTHOR_TESTING and xt?)

2009-12-02 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: This has triggered my semi-biyearly ponderance of plugins.  I think tools for authors should be doable outside of M::B.  And/or more easily customized than via subclassing, plus more easily shared between distributions than

Re: Plugins (was: AUTHOR_TESTING and xt?)

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Golden # on Wednesday 02 December 2009 14:59: Anyway, when that's done, I think I'll have a clearer sense of what in M::B is really core and what is author support.  That said, plugins are probably not on my radar in the next year. We can't really draw a line between core and author

Re: Plugins (was: AUTHOR_TESTING and xt?)

2009-12-02 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Eric Wilhelm enoba...@gmail.com wrote: # from David Golden # on Wednesday 02 December 2009 14:59: Anyway, when that's done, I think I'll have a clearer sense of what in M::B is really core and what is author support.  That said, plugins are probably not on my

Re: Plugins (was: AUTHOR_TESTING and xt?)

2009-12-02 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from David Golden # on Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:37: We can't really draw a line between core and author support -- only between core and not core (because what was once in core is Sorry.  I was imprecise.  I was not saying core to mean Perl core.  Just what is *essential* for