Ron Savage wrote:
Hi Richard
[ .. ]
Just in case you think I'm a night owl too, it was 11:09 am when I
posted... That's what you get for being at the center of internet, aka
Melbourne, Australia :-).
Of course, you meant 'centre' :) Also, I thought you fell off the edge
somewhere round there?
So in answer to Ron's nuclear option, I'm not persuaded it's necessary
to bin it at the moment. But in reality I use it only for the admin
parts of my app, as it was too much work to re-factor all the rest of it
away from AutoRunmode, which was and is working fine anyway.
Fair enough. I'm deeply uneasy about adding these modules on top of
things, myself, so I don't.
Yes, agreed with the sentiment, but it's always a trade-off between
re-inventing the wheel by hand-writing everything - session handling,
form submission handling (yes, even CGI.pm), etc, or on the other hand
installing all the bells-and-whistles from CPAN and having to baby-sit
your application until you're completely happy with it. A comprehensive
test suite helps greatly there.
I fall somehow between the two, as I imagine do most folk here. Nothing
ventured, nothing gained also applies here - you can only really become
comfortable with a module when you have experience using it in a
production environment, which means trying it out in the first place. I
usually introduce new or unfamiliar modules either in non-critical apps
that can double as test-beds, or early on in the development cycle of a
major app. This list is also very helpful in trouble-shooting issues
with unfamiliar modules.
So to go back to your earlier point, I would say I'm only slightly
uneasy about introducing new modules on top of things. So I do :)
--
Richard Jones
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