[Soaplite-devel] SOAP::Lite refactoring - splitting up SOAP::Lite

[Martin K. <mar...@fe...>]

Hi Robbie,

I've just had my first run on the split up SOAP::Lite you did. After
some adjustments, the test suite passed again.

I started moving most modules from the SOAP:: namespace into
SOAP::Lite:: - SOAP is another CPAN distribution (which owns the
namespace), so SOAP::Lite won't get indexed on CPAN when containing
conflicting packages.
(theres 2 tickets open for SOAP::Lite namespace issues on CPAN RT).

There's a few packages I don't like to be moved in the first run:

SOAP::Data and SOAP::Header: Both are so widely used that moving them
would break almost every SOAP client/server

SOAP::Transport::*: The transport layer is sometimes used from other
distributions.

I'd suggest providing these modules twice - as SOAP:: and SOAP::Lite::
variant in the next release, and marking them as deprecated. This way
users have a chance to catch up...

Martin