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I'd like to point you to a few posts I've made re: CGI::Application. Not all of every post is relevant to you, but it's good stuff, nonetheless. In no particular order ...

I don't think you're leveraging the greatest benefit of CGI::Application which is the parent class. Each of these different apps should have their own CGI::App child class, using a set of parent classes which would be shared across all your different apps. That's where the reuse comes in.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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Re^8: What is YOUR Development Process?
by swiftone (Curate) on Nov 08, 2005 at 20:38 UTC
    I don't think you're leveraging the greatest benefit of CGI::Application which is the parent class.

    Actually, I'm leveraging it more than the average CGI::App user. I have a CGI::App subclass that manages my framework. If I have an app, say, a CRUD app to manage contact lists, it exists as a subclass of my framework class, and might have 5-10 instance scripts. Should I have a peculiar version, sure, i'll subclass it and have some particulars, for for a lot of apps only the templates and the names of some fields change. So I reuse the parent class. A lot. More than most CGI::App people, based on my questions in the past few years on that mailing list.

    I'm not clear on what you're suggesting that I'm not doing.

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      You were mentioning that developer A produces version 1.0 of some C::A subclass for application Foo. Then, developer B comes along and upgrades that same C::A subclass to version 1.1 for application Bar. All of a sudden, application Foo doesn't work the same.

      To me, each application should have its own subclass, even if that class is nothing more than 

      package Our::Web::Apps::Foo;

use base 'Our::Web::Apps';

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      If only to avoid the problem that you're discussing.
      My criteria for good software:
      1. Does it work?
      2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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