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Simon's article (Score:1)

by ajtaylor (1283)

I liked Simon's article so much I went and installed Config::Auto for a personal project. It has some annoying dependencies (like XML::Simple for parsing XML config files - something I'll never use) but other than that It Just Works. I really like parse() just gives you a hash ref. Simple, quick, easy to pass around, and no API to learn. :-)
One note though: the current version on CPAN doesn't work with 5.6.0 for some reason. I grabbed the latest from CVS (per Simon's tip) and it all worked beautifully. Th

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