Re: preview: ValidateRM as a plug-in

Although it is not really compatible with this approach, one of the nice 
things about many plugin systems is that while they all reside in a 
Foo::Plugin:: namespace, the mechanisms for importing the plugin usually 
lets you drop the Foo::Plugin:: prefix when referring to it and it will 
still do the Right Thing.  Not really going anywhere with this, as it 
would require a different approach, but was looking at the character 
count of
> use CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM (qw/check_rm/);

versus something like

$app->load_plugin('ValidateRM', qw(check_rm));

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a preview of CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM if you are
> interested. It's mostly a name change.
>
> I did change one other thing: I no longer export the methods by default.
>
> So this:
>
> use CGI::Application::ValidateRM; 
>
> becomes
>
> use CGI::Application::Plugin::ValidateRM (qw/check_rm/);
>
> This change adheres better with the Exporter recommendation to not
> export anything by default. It should also make it easier for
> maintenance programmers, who see the check_rm() method, and wonder where
> the the fsck it came from.
>
> This is name space management design I'm proposing as a standard for
> other plug-in writers as well.
>
> Oh, I almost forgot the link:
> http://mark.stosberg.com/perl/CGI-Application-Plugin-ValidateRM-1.20.tar.gz
>
> I do plan to keep the code on CPAN under the old name for now, with
> disclaimer added that the "plugin" version is recommended. 
>
> Unless there are concerns about this design, I'll make this release
> formal in a couple of days.
>
>         Mark
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