Split to two plugins?

[jenstornell]

I have an idea to list the 10 recent pages on a frontpage. Using index() with a site with a lot of pages would probably be slow, to read every page on each pageload.

Therefor I came up with the idea to kind of make a log file triggered by panel hooks on each save. The log would then contain for example the 10 recent saved or updated pages.

Then I remembered that this plugin exists, but it's a panel plugin. Maybe it would be a good idea to split the "engine" from the visual panel stuff? In case the Panel would change at some point, you could still keep that engine and just change the panel stuff.