Dear Monks,

I'm working on something along the lines of Care and Feeding of Large Web Applications. Specifically, "Managing large sets of CPAN modules, some with local changes.", "Creating an automated build system.", and "Testing strategies for a complicated database application and a modern web UI."

My question for you all *cough*perrin*cough* is what is a good starting point for this type of thing? Is there something available pre-built that I can start hacking on? Or should I just start with a basic CPAN style build module such as ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build, or Module::Install, and go from there? If so, what's the best build module currently? Something to handle tests and pre-requisites. And yet flexible enough to have additional functionality outside of its original scope of design built or added on top of it.

Thanks in advance!!!

In reply to Best Build/Test System? by bennymack

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