[Arsperl-devel] ARSperl package structure changes

[Thilo S. <thi...@ap...>]

Hi all,

I'd like to make a reorganization to the directory structure of the 
ARSperl package which might not be entirely backwards compatible, 
especially concerning the OO-Modules, so I want to discuss it here first.

I've always regarded it as rather bad practice that ARSperl installs sol 
many files directly into the "site/lib" directory. In my opinion there 
should only be ARS.pm and an "ARS/" subdirectory containing everything 
else. So what I'd like to do is moving the following files to the "ARS/" 
subdirectory:

ARSar-h.pm
ARSarerrno-h.pm
ARSnparm.pm
ARSnt-h.pm
ARSnterrno-h.pm
ARSOOform.pm
ARSOOmsgs.pm
ARSOOsup.pm
artypes.ph
_h2ph_pre.ph

thereby changing the filenames to "ARS/ar-h.pm", "ARS/arerrno.pm" etc.

I'll try to make this as backwards compatible as possible, which might 
not be entirely feasible for the OO-Modules, so users might have to 
change their code from "new ARS(...)" to something like "new ARS::OO(...)".

Does anyone know what "_h2ph_pre.ph" and "artypes.ph" are about? They
are "require"d by most of the .pm modules, but only contain the code
"1;", which doesn't seem to make sense. I'd like to get rid of them 
altogether unless there is a reason for their existence.


Regards,
Thilo