I've never touched plugins in my life, but I'm writing something at present that I think would be improved by allowing and using them. I've been looking for docs and have found little more than Coding perl a plugin system? (2002), http://perldoc.perl.org/Module/Pluggable.html (2006) and http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/Module-PluginFinder-0.04/lib/Module/PluginFinder.pm (undated). I get the impression that it's a relatively stable area, but that's only my impression.

Another impression is that plugins should NOT be used if parameters and config files would do, but that such parameters or files might well identify which plugins are needed to provide the logic for a given situation.

Are there any tutorials in this area? Are there any standard rules for when to, when NOT to, and how to write plugins and the code to call them?

Regards,

John Davies

In reply to Plugins: any advice or docs? by davies

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