[Koha-devel] add the Smart::Comments perl module to Koha, a good idea?

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Jan 20, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Chris Nighswonger wrote:
> That's pretty slick. I'd have no objection to adding it in. I don't think we should slash Data::Dumper simply because there are many places it is currently used. We could work toward eliminating it, though.

Data::Dumper isn't just a debug tool, though -- more broadly, it's a way of serializing Perl data structures.  Not the only way, of course -- we've already got YAML and JSON modules as dependencies that can serve the same purpose, but since Data::Dumper is also a core module, I don't think making a point of eliminating its use would gain us much.  Of course, it doesn't hurt to continually evaluate usage of Koha's many Perl modules.

Regards,

Galen
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