Releasing mods that don't (on their own) do anything...

[Carnage]

This is somewhat of a strange query, but here are two situations I'm considering with this thread.

1. I have a framework product which I have written; it dosn't do anything on its own, however provides the common functions required for (currently 1 hopefully more in the future) other plugins. I'd like to encourage other developers to develop plugins for it and intend to release at least 1 myself.

2. I'm considering writing a number of stub plugins mostly for my own benifit, which provide commonly needed functions that often require a number of plugins to achieve eg adding admin permissions. A product thats purpose is solely to provide admin permissions would only be of use to developers.

(1) i'm pretty sure is allowed, the only issue I see people taking is the framework being released separate to any plugins for it.

(2) I'm not sure about; perhaps thay'd be better as articles?