What do others think of this approach?

Two things immediately strike me...

  1. Normally modules are used by scripts. Not the other way around. So my initial design choice would be to encapsulate the functionality of your scripts into their own modules. If more than one script needs VCF export functionality, that should be in a module. which can then be used by other modules and/or by scripts.
  2. Using system to run Perl scripts from within Perl is bad practice - I don't understand the nuances of what problems it causes (hopefully others will educate us both), but I do know it's not something you should do. With some thought about design, it should never be necessary either.

In reply to Re: Looking for suggestions for accessing/running scripts needed by a local Perl library by Bod
in thread Looking for suggestions for accessing/running scripts needed by a local Perl library by nysus

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