Some caveats about SelfLoader. We've been using it in production here at my company for awhile and it has a few gotchas:

1) Debugging becomes more difficult as line numbers aren't reperesnted correctly, nor the actual error. Often the error will be presented in the highest-up module used in your tree. I recommend having a script that will comment out the selfloader code while you are in development and put them back in when you are about to put things in production.

2) Many editors get confused by SelfLoader because your actual subroutines sit below the __DATA__ declaration. I don't know how to trick Emacs or VI into seeing these correctly, but JEdit maintains its highlighting correctly.

The speed gains in a non mod-perl environment are nice though.

In reply to Re^2: Dealing with large chains of dependent packages by techra
in thread Dealing with large chains of dependent packages by amw1

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