Re: Plugin architecture

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm)
Newsgroups perl.module.build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
# from Christopher J. Madsen
# on Saturday 15 March 2008 23:43:

>> Of course, return() doesn't carry a consistent meaning in
>> Module::Build right now, so maybe that needs to be specified.  What
>> meaning should return values have for plugins?
>
>I felt the return value of post hooks is ignored.  Pre hooks return
>'done'/'continue'.  If we make done a method, I'd say we ignore the
>return value of pre hooks also.

If we can completely eliminate the control flow communication from the 
hooks, we can just ignore their return values and even forget about the 
done() method.

--Eric
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