Esteemed Monks,
I've recently been handed a crufty old (well, MS Access 2000) Access db application to maintain.
As this is a little-used app, I thought I'd take the opportunity to rewrite it in Perl/Tk/DBI (probably MySQL as the backend)... purely as a learning excersise.
I see three paths to follow, here:
- Dump the data from Access, load it into MySQL, and point the Access front-end to the new backend. Then rewrite the front-end in Perl/Tk.
- Rewrite the front-end in Perl/Tk, and use DBD::ODBC to get to the data. Then convert the data to MySQL.
- Do both at the same time (basically, just rewrite the app from scratch).
Has anyone here had any similar experience? Recommendations? Red flags over looming snake-pits?
Basically just looking for opinions :-)
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