I have decided to use one single configuration for all off my CPAN mod\ ules. This way, I can simply build up one file on my local machine, which will be called ~/.appconfig which have configuration sections for everything I use. Heck, emacs has a .emacs file, so the emacs of c-shell languages (Perl) needs one too.

So, then it comes down to whether to use something like XML::Simple or AppConfig (not be confused with App::Config by the same author):

The thing about AppConfig is that it is in fact designed to configure applications. It handles default values, maximum number of args per parameters, and more.

XML on the other hand is an up and coming standard.

Both of them will provide strong error checking.

does anyone have any experience/suggestions to share?

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