On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 16:41 -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > I do NOT want to see that sort of thing as patches to Test::Harness. > > I would like anyone who presumes that he's going to change the internals > of a module I maintain to talk to me about a general overview of the > changes first, rather than a sweep of the hand that says "What you have > here must be eradicated and replaced by my method that is clearly > better." That way we can talk about what direction things can go, > rather than having a pile of patches that won't be used.
I don't think that's fair, Andy. I have a few ideas myself on how to make T::H a little more clean and useful, but I'd have to do some refactorings myself on a private fork to see how well they look in practice. Perhaps Shlomi's approach to announcing his intent was less tactful than you might prefer and perhaps distributing his module on the CPAN as a replacement rather than an experiment would be a mistake, but backing up big ideas with working code is worth some respect, not outright dismissal. -- c
