Personally, I don't think that there is that much wrong with PM.

There are some things I would like to see fixed and there's no doubt that any codebase that has been subjected to 'live maintainance' over an extended period is surely due for some remedial refactoring, and there undoubtably some good ideas (tye has mentioned a few in the past) that could be implemented to improve the performance etc.

I don't think I would throw the baby out with the bathwater. Too many times, essential fixes to the original codebase get overlooked in "rewrites from scratch", and then have to be re-invented when the new system goes operational and you rapidly end up with a new, but heavily patched system that exhibites all the same flaws as the original.

It comes back to the thoughts I expressed a while ago of always starting from a working base. Essential to the philosophy is the ability to have ideas and try them out without compromising the working system. A test system is pretty much essential.

It breifly crossed my mind that maybe something like thttpd -- a lightweight, throttleable server might be used to provide this, but I seriously doubt that it has a mod_perl environment available:(

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In reply to Re: Re: Total speculation? by BrowserUk
in thread Total speculation? by BrowserUk

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