On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, David Golden <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm going to start working on CPAN::Testers::Client very shortly.
... > > I'd appreciate your thoughts on this ramble. > > Regards, > David My first and most important thought is: to please provide a tool that will take all my related, scattered, config-like files (that you plan to replace), and one by one, parse them and output them into your new format on sysout, and comment the new format output- with where the file should live in the default organization. Then I will look over all these outputs, and knit together "one ring to rule them all". Why, you ask? Well, there is a little story about that. Not that I am any kind of master, but few of us here are novices- certainly, not you. The Zen of Programming (Paperback) by Geoffrey James "Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state of affairs?" he asked. The novice thought for a moment. "I will design a new editing program," he said, "a program that will replace all these others." Suddenly the master struck the novice on the side of his head. "What did you do that for?" exclaimed the surprised novice. "I have no wish to learn another editing program," said the master. And suddenly the novice was enlightened. ;-)
