Re: Subclass? Plugin? Mixin? Monkey Patch?

On Jun 18, 2008, at 01:57, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

>> so I guess that subclassing isn't
>> necessarily the best way to go.
>
> Do you have enough tuits to dust-off the "plugin architecture" thread?

Link?

How hard can it be? (He asks, ignoring the dragons.)

> Subclassing is not a great way to do mixins by multiple authors,
> especially if the interface is like 'use base qw(foo bar baz)'.

Right, I know.

> And then there's the thing where some features are optional and the
> dependencies aren't necessary for the install (e.g. developer  
> targets.)

Huh? Plugins can be distributed separately, with their own  
dependencies, I'm sure.

Best,

David