[Developers] Metaweb Perl module

[Kirsten Jones]

All,

I'm just about ready to start working with Hayden's perl module, and  
had some thoughts I wanted to bounce off of the rest of you.

On the more general topic of modules, I'd really love for the  
developer community to come up with a set of guidelines for client  
libraries for Metaweb.  Each language's library might well have  
additional functionality, but I'd love to define what the 'base  
functionality' for each library should be.  Doing this will make it  
easier for people to move among the various dynamic languages and  
leverage off of other people's work in different languages to seed  
their own applications.  It seems like it would also make it easier  
to create the client libraries if some essential set of behaviors is  
already specified.

Metaweb is so flexible that I'm afraid if we *don't* come up with  
something like this, the modeling in each language may end up being  
radically different.

Since I currently work at a wiki company, I was thinking of creating  
a workspace for people who are interested in collaborating on what  
these guidelines might be.  But I thought I'd start here and see what  
people think - good, bad, indifferent?  There are certainly arguments  
to be made for allowing these things to grow organically.

Thanks,
Kirsten