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This was the whole point of the question (which of course gets muddled as brain tries to dump to keyboard). I've got one setup where I know that the spec won't change for a year or two and we worked out what the users really want/need from version 1.0. The next version is to be a lot more presentable and in it's avarice, the department would like to sell it to the other departments, whose setups I will not know ahead of time. Good suggestions, both of you. I'd thought of the easier ones, but strict.pm and OOP hadn't occured to me. I shall be following the latest module thread with interest.