Seriously, what school of Software Engineering did you graduate from

I'm 20 years old and going for a Bachelors in Fine Arts, I think I'm doing pretty well, I've never taken a CS class and I barely passed Algerbra 2 in High School. I have interesting ways of solving things.

It seems to me that loading up each and every module that *could* be used is wasteful, also since I want to allow n number of different DB schemes.

I'm going to solve this problem in a similar manner as AnyDBM_File does, since it pretty much has the exact mechanism that I'm looking for.

I probably should have mentioned that each scheme to do the dirty work is a bit more complext than fetch() store(), there's also searches and thingies that actually print and return interesting things.

do you _really_ need to concern yourself with that? And even if you do - doesn't that sound like a job for the _next_ version? (nudge, nudge)

This could theoretically be the next version, although this particular app version has been going on heavy development since the .0 release last July (2000) . There is absolutely no way I'm starting from scratch, alone on a 1 meg program written in Perl

I talked to my accountant (my wallet and my college bill) and thought that if I could release, say a totally Open Source and Free version of this particular program, making the Base Module LGPL'd, have a plain text version GPL'd and have, say a Postgres or MySQL version proprietary (ie, sell the SQL version) I could help myself out, and at the same time, make the transition relatively painless, if I decide to just go with a SQL backend. A pluggable achitecture will also allow other developers to create their own solutions and that'll keep the vitality alive for the program itself.

I may draw pretty pictures all day, but you get a lot of thinking done in the process :)

 

-justin simoni
!skazat!

In reply to Re: (jeffa) 3Re: Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by skazat
in thread Loading a different Module depending on the Configuration by skazat

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