matchstick-development

[Matchstick-dev] moving forward..

[Peter L. <pe...@pe...>]

So an attempt to start the discussions moving forward.

With my new gig, I've inherited a codebase that, while stable, is going to 
be revised from the ground up.

It's a pretty complex bit of software, but I already see a pretty clear 
path as to where I want to be at the end.

And it really needs a support framework.

I'm not even thinking about mod_perl integration at the moment.  Simply 
the framework to really make a large perl application easier to deal with.

I'm already looking at stealing large parts of the Krang codebase, but I'd 
like to do it in a constructive fashion if possible.  The problem is that 
I'm not 100% sure of how to go forward in a way that would make it easy 
for others to build their own code out in the same fashion.

Should I just go & steal liberally, or is there some desire elsehwere to 
try and get something going with MatchStick?

 	--pete


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Peter Leonard
pe...@pe...

Re: [Matchstick-dev] moving forward..

[Sam T. <sa...@tr...>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Leonard wrote:

> I'm already looking at stealing large parts of the Krang codebase, but I'd
> like to do it in a constructive fashion if possible.  The problem is that I'm
> not 100% sure of how to go forward in a way that would make it easy for others
> to build their own code out in the same fashion.
> 
> Should I just go & steal liberally, or is there some desire elsehwere to try
> and get something going with MatchStick?

There's definitely a desire to get something going with Matchstick.  I
expect to put some time into it sometime in the next few months.
Within the next couple weeks I may know more specifically.

But if you want to jump in here's the plan, as far as I've thought it
out so far:

  - Modularize the stuff in the important bin/ scripts in Krang.  Try
    to make them easy to extend via inheritence where possible.  Put
    them in the Matchstick:: namespace.

  - Create a 'matchstick_create' script which creates little stubs
    scripts that do nothing more than bootstrap PERL5LIB and run.  For
    example, a generated foo_install script might look like:

      use Matchstick::Installer;
      Matchstick::Installer->run();

    I started on matchstick_create but I don't think I got very far.
    I think I put what I had in CVS.

-sam