perlquestion
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I am looking in the future to what my next program is likely
to become and I can forsee that different people are going
to want different database connections and/or platforms.
What can I do to make my life easier when someone comes back
to me saying "oh, could you make it do this instead"? I
don't want to go messing in the guts of a program and create
incompatabilities while trying to add new functionality.
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It's original form would just be one long program in Perl/TK
(Java is the other option) providing an interface to a
database for a barcode scanner under Win98, but I have my
choice of Oracle or Access (and MySQL is always lurking in
wings) and, who knows, the platform may move to WinXP or
Linux. I want users to install it as painlessly as possible
along with the required Perl and TK libraries. <b>Am I
looking at simply parsing command line options with GetOpt
or should I go full blown control with MakeMaker?</b>
(I'm not
sure what I should be running make on, tho)
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What I'm looking for are ideas on <i>good</i> project
management, so that I don't end up down some dark alley
late at night. Many thanks: