Dave Howorth:
> Sebastian Riedel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that we finally finished 2.0 it's time to think about the future.
> > The brainstorming started today on #maypole, maybe you guys have some
> > good ideas too.
>
> I'd have to say that absolutely the first priority should be to make the
> documentation catch up with what's there now. At the moment I'm spending
> tremendous amounts of time in order to make what I believe ought to be
> relatively trivial customisations. I don't consider myself dumb, but I
> find I'm having to read and understand all the code in the framework and
> all the underlying modules in order to be able to use it. That's not
> great abstraction.
Agreed, the current Manual should be quite up to date, but we need
feedback and patches to improve it!
>
> > - support for multiple models (we definately need this)
> >
> > the implementation details are still to be defined, this is just
> > a first try:
> <snipped code>
>
> Could you give descriptions of what you mean (a use case or whatever).
> Code only makes sense to people who already understand the problem
> you're trying to solve.
Simple, you can currently only have one model.
If you want LDAP and CDBI it doesn't work.
And Maypole::Model::Base is much too CDBI oriented.
>
> In general, provision of hooks to let people more easily customise
> things. For example, I posted some code to generate correct singular and
> plural text for tables and columns. The new release broke my hack that
> runs this code so I've had to spend time making a new hack to run the
> code, but I haven't had any feedback on whether there are better hooks
> to use or better ways to do it, or whether people believe text
> generation belongs in th emodel or the view.
>
> Also, of course, I'd like to see proper text generation in Maypole :)
Dunno what you're talking about, sorry.
>
> BTW, any chance of the bug list on CPAN being updated?
Yes... :-/
sebastian
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