Re: Zillions of components - what is calling what?

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:55:31 -0500 "Simon Wonderful" <onederful2be@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Let's say you've been plonked into an environment where people have
> been programming with Mason for years. There are billions and billions
> of Mason components being called all over the place.
> 
> You've been asked to add some 'simple' functionality to an existing
> web site - it's not much different to what's already there, but you
> have absolutely no idea which component is calling which component
> in the mess of components and subdirectories and include files.
> 
> And there is (ka-ching) only very little external Word documentation on
> the system.
> What do you do? Can I somehow get Mason to show me a debug trail
> of Mason components being called, when I invoke a web page?
> 
> I've been working on just existing Perl/CGI web pages for
> years, but somehow always managed to find my way around. With Mason
> I'm finding it takes me a long time to figure out the program flow.

http://masonhq.com/user/gorilla/content_tree

 - Vegard -


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