Topic: Splitting it up

[michael]

I'd like to see album.pl split up. Although it's nice to only have to upload the one script file, it's cumbersome if the user wants to make changes. Have to search through for the things you want and then upload the whole big file. Cutting down on the size and moving sections that aren't used most commonly (such as static HTML generation in a live gallery) to separate files will also improve performance and organization, methinks.

Great job, regardless!

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yeah, I agree. I was thinking the other day that the file is now nearly 200k, and that has to be loaded every time the album starts up. Much of that is the POD (documentation) which could be moved out, saving space.

I assume (but don't know) that several smaller files will load faster than one large one...

[michael]

Yes, I'm very confident that several smaller files will run faster than one large one. I think the two biggies to move out would be the static HTML generating and the POD.