On a related thread, I'm curious as to how I should go about testing interactions with a database on a user's system. It would be very rude for the testing procedures of my module to carelessly stomp on the database residing on someone's machine. What precautions and paradigms should I employ so as both to thoroughly test my module on the user's machine and avoid trashing his environment? I've read horror stories of hapless users having rogue modules smash their data, and I'd rather not be a purveyor of such a module.
Require DBI::SQLite as a dependency and run your own database, or perhaps DBD::Anydata.

In reply to Re: A First CPAN Odyssey by BUU
in thread A First CPAN Odyssey by skyknight

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