On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Andrew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure how an external config file fits with a perl module > though. Should a module be entirely self contained?
Well, one way is to do the way Perl itself (Config.pm) and CPAN.pm do it - store the configuration in a Perl module. CPAN lets you put it in a MyConfig.pm file under your home directory or have a system-wide CPAN::Config module. But I think the most flexible way would be to just make the user pass the configuration in as an argument, perhaps as a hashref. In the docs, you could suggest that the user store the configuration in a Perl, YAML, or XML file but pass the information in as a hash. I think that makes it easiest for the user to control how they might want to handle configuration in their own environment.
