Re: Validate finally finished splitting up.

Helgi Þormar wrote: >Hello people. > >Now many of you might have noticed the flood of releases of Validate_* >packages and must be thinking what's going on. > >To explain it in a short manner, we decided to make the main Validate >package smaller and split of the locales (UK, NL, PL and etc) and the >other things into their own sub packages so they can benefit from their >own release cycle instead of relying on Validate to make a release. > >This will make it easier for new validate packages to emerge and also to >define different stability states of each sub packages. > >We truly hope this benefits everyone, even tho it might mean a bit more >typing for those people that need more than one locale ;-) If your objective is to refactor the Validate package, you might want to have a look at how we use validation rules in HTML_QuickForm. We used the Strategy pattern which makes it easy to add new rules and a Registry which loads only the request rules on demand, checking if they have not already been loaded. It also handles new rules registration. Good luck, Bertrand Mansion Mamasam