I'm thinking of a writing module* that will provide runtime
advice on the 
user's Catalyst choices.  For exampe, if they use an old
cache plugin, a 
warning like "use of deprecated plugin
Cache::Foobar" will show up.  It can 
be disabled with a line like "no Catalyst::Warnings
qw(deprecated::cache)" or 
whatever.  (Another thing it should warn about is
index/default/etc. instead 
of the newer :Path :Args(0).)

Anyway, since mst can't be everywhere, this could be a good
way of educating 
the users that don't keep up with every IRC conversation...
without causing 
them trouble if they don't want it.  Sort of like "use
strict" or 
Perl::Critic.

Ideas?  Anything specific you want included?

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway

[*] Although I'm certainly not the first person to come up
with this idea.

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 02:24:08AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway
wrote:
> I'm thinking of a writing module* that will provide
runtime advice on the 
> user's Catalyst choices.  For exampe, if they use an
old cache plugin, a 
> warning like "use of deprecated plugin
Cache::Foobar" will show up.  It can 
> be disabled with a line like "no
Catalyst::Warnings qw(deprecated::cache)" or 
> whatever.  (Another thing it should warn about is
index/default/etc. instead 
> of the newer :Path :Args(0).)
> 
> Anyway, since mst can't be everywhere, this could be a
good way of educating 
> the users that don't keep up with every IRC
conversation... without causing 
> them trouble if they don't want it.  Sort of like
"use strict" or 
> Perl::Critic.
> 
> Ideas?  Anything specific you want included?

A warnings::register implementation for the core to handle
plugin deprecation.

Then a Perl::Critic policy and a helper for generating a
test for the rest.

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