Getting better at this?

[Lady_Aleena]

Hello everyone.

I think I have made some improvements on how I write and use what I write.

Since I began using git, I have made several changes to my code for my site.

First, I moved everything used only for my site and have no intention of sharing on CPAN into one directory/name space called Page, This is the code so many dislike, so now it is all in one place away from everything else most are somewhat neutral about.

After that bit of reorganization, I wanted to get the code not used for my site away from my site's code, so decided to do something about it. After a lot of digging on CPAN to get some site related code out, I had to know where to put external data used in half a dozen modules. It took me a while to figure it out. Once I did, File::ShareDir made it into my code.

Next, I had to get my site's modules out of PERL5LIB, so I finally used FindBin after fighting against it all these years. I had been putting my site's lib into PERL5LIB since I was using Windows XP. It followed through when I switched to Debian. So, now $HOME/perl5/lib/perl5 is the only lib in PERL5LIB.

Once I got that done, I had to figure out where to move the site independent modules to.

I moved the ones I use for my personal non-site scripts to $HOME/bin/files/lib. These are the reason I learned how to use FindBin. I know it is not the best place for them, but they are not pretty and are not even version controlled now.

I moved the ones I want to share to $HOME/mods/lib where I can write tests and whatever else I need to learn.

There are some duplicate modules in my site's lib dir as are in mods/lib, but that will change once I get those packaged and on CPAN.

I thought some of you might be interested in these little changes in my coding practices; some have been arguing with me over them for a very long time. I hope that the changes I made are slight improvements. If you are interested in looking at what I have done in the past two months, you can see my site's and module's repositories. I am trying to stay excited about sharing, but it can be hard when I see just how much more I need to do to get these ready for it.

Have a nice day everyone...

I hope this was not too scattered.