I'm in the midst of working on a recipe program in Perl with some other people accross the globe (so far France, Italy, Russia, and Brazil, in addition to the U.S. & Canada) via SourceForge. With the added help, the project is progressing nicely, but I find that I'm spending lots of time reviewing code. This is needed, I think, but as the program file grows (just under 1500 lines, but increasing fast with each feature) it takes more and more time to go over.

I was thinking of splitting it up into the main program(s) and having lots of modules. That way only one or two files will be affected each time.

Is my thinking sound, or am I missing some important issues (on both sides)? If it's a good idea, what is the best way to logically devide the code? Also, can anyone give advice (and pointers to info) on working on/leading projects in this manner?

melguin.

In reply to hacking a project in groups by melguin

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