I am working on an application that will make heavy use of serial communication. I need to deploy on Windows systems first, but subsequent development will be needed to port it to other systems, most likely Linux and Solaris.

Are Win32::SerialPort and Device::SerialPort my best option for portability? Or should I plan on using my own object to hide the varying Serial interfaces from my main code? For Unix systems, should I be opening my own filehandles and such or is there a module that is particularly good?

If anyone cares, I am going to be uploading intel hex files to a firmware flashing program. Because of hardware limitations, I need to chop the big hexfile into many little pieces and load each piece individually. While I can do this with a simple script and a terminal, it is no fun. Thus my desire to automate. Plus, we need a tool to give to our customers (if we ever finish the device and anyone ever buys it).

Update:Added CPAN tags to module names.


TGI says moo

In reply to Portable serial communication by TGI

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