Re: State of Perl-based database setup utilities for LedgerSMB 1.3

["David F. Skoll" <..hidden..>]

On Sat, 28 May 2011 14:08:39 +0100
Lyle <..hidden..> wrote:

> > I'm not sure I like a web-based interface.  This makes automated
> > installations and testing much harder.

> Wouldn't Test::WWW::Mechanize make this pretty straight forward?

Ugh.  That's really a bad approach; it means you need a working
web server before you can even do any unit tests.

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> I guess it depends on what you are used to. Some users will not be
> used to installing and making packages on the command line, so for
> them a web interface would likely be more intuitive.

It's far easier to wrap a command-line tool in a Web interface than
coerce a Web interface to be usable from the command-line.

Really, all the work should be done by Perl modules, which can then be
layered by both a command-line tool and a Web interface.

Regards,

David.