[Quoting Ken Williams, on March 4 2002, 15:17, in "Re: Config with prop"] > 1) Why is this better than using Data::Dumper for saving config info? > Is it so that you can hand-edit the config files?
Yes, manual maintenance of the config files is a design goal. > Do you know about YAML, on CPAN? Yes, but I rejected it due to its alpha status, unneeded complexity and because it relies on whitespace indentation to represent structure. Imagine what happens if people start editing the files and use tabs with different presets?. (I also rejected most other Config::* and XML::* modules for varying reasons.) > 2) Is it appropriate to use the Config namespace, since the Config.pm > module is a pretty different beast? Config::Properties is an existing CPAN module, with similar functionality. My module does the same, with extensions. However, AppConfig::Properties would be a suitable name as well. Thanks for your feedback. -- Johan
