Re: [Soaplite-devel] SOAP::Lite maintenance

[Matthew R. <mr...@za...>]

Good luck! SOAP::Lite is a scary place =p

There was some talk of a reworking of SOAP::Lite in the past, but I'm  
not sure what came of it.

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On Sep 27, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Martin Kutter wrote:

> Hi Byrne,
>
> as far as I can see, SOAP::Lite is currently not being maintained.
>
> In my opinion, this is a quite undesirable state, as SOAP and  
> XMLRPC applications
> become more and more widespread, and other languages like python  
> already provide
> support for them in there standard library.
>
> I hereby offer to take over maintenance of the SOAP::Lite module.
>
> My plans for SOAP::Lite maintenance are:
>
> 1) Work down the list of bug reports on CPAN & sourceforge
> 2) Split the SOAP/Lite.pm into separate files, while completely  
> preserving SOAP::Lite's
> API
>    In my opinion, the BIG SOAP/Lite.pm is one of the most serious  
> design
>    flaws in SOAP::Lite. This can easily be changed by moving to a
>    one package/one file stragey.
>    Separating packages into different files eases maintenance, and  
> makes
>    SOAP::Lite more "lightweight"
> 3) Factor out the seldomly used parts into separate packages.
>    In my opinion, there's no need for Jabber or MQ support in SOAP- 
> Lite -
>    they could easily be factored out into SOAP-Lite-Jabber and SOAP- 
> Lite-MQ
>
>    distributions.
>    I bet there's more to come...
> 4) Centralize contact.
>    - move the yahoo groups user support forum to a user mailing list
>      on sourceforge
>    - move soaplite.com to soap-lite.sourceforge.net
>
> To introduce myself: I'm known on CPAN as MKUTTER. I'm the author  
> of SOAP::WSDL,
> a WSDL-based frontend for SOAP::Lite. I'm currently doing a  
> complete rewrite
> of SOAP::WSDL, and have learned - the hard way - that I can't use  
> too much of
> SOAP::Lite as a base for SOAP::WSDL - actually, the only usable  
> part is the
> transport backends.
>
> I'm also receiving user comments suggesting improvements which  
> cannot be done
> without modifying SOAP::Lite, too.
>
> I consider this a very bad situation, which could be fixed easily -  
> provided
> SOAP::Lite would be actively maintained.
>
> As there seems no one there to do the task, I'd just offer to do it  
> myself.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
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