You write:

Would it be that hard to convert to a sane setup?

Ovid wrote:

I could either spend two or three days ripping out all of the configuration code which writes to that file and replace it with a standard configuration set up, find a module on the CPAN which implements this or I could reinvent the wheel.

And then Ovid wrote again:

That config file is autogenerated. As mentioned in my post, it would take me two or three days (I hope) to rip out everything which writes to that file and replace it. Instead, I hacked a solution in a couple of hours.

Your suggestion (or something very close) has already been made twice by others after it was preempted by the original node, and was then refuted once more in replies.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^2: "eval"ing a hash without eval by Aristotle
in thread "eval"ing a hash without eval by Ovid

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