Dear Mr. Bowen,
I checked my records, and it was sent back in January of 2001. It was
basically the same package, but had some additional variables that were
automatically set (they've been removed). I then submitted it to
module_authors the first week of February, and received absolutely no
response. I got busy again and lost interest.
After submitting it this time, I only received two responses including
yours, so I don't know if it's worth the effort. I have used it quite a bit
in my work in Bioinformatics, as several of the applications were mixed
language, mixed platform, so I could use a single config file for Java or
VC, and Perl and be sure of the same settings (I even wrote a version of it
in Tcl for one project). Some of the applications were recursive calls that
ran over hours or even days, so every bit of speed was needed. I spent a
reasonable amount of time optimizing numerous modules, not just this one
(dprof and Benchmark rock!). I originally wrote this module not realizing
that yours existed, but I think I probably would have ended up with
something similar, anyway.
I'm not sure how this module would fit in with yours, as they are, at
best complimentary. You are welcome to distribute it with IniFiles as a
package, and I will be happy support it, but unless I get some additional
positive feedback, I don't see the point of submitting it to CPAN as
separate module.
As I stated in my previous note, it can be found at the following
location:
http://www.neonedge.com/perl_tools/Config/ with links in the document to the
gzip package, as well as an example program.
Thanks,
Grant M.
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