[SPUG-Workers] Catalyst

Colin Meyer cmeyer at helvella.org
Thu Jan 26 10:44:08 PST 2006


On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:54:40AM -0800, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> Does anyone know anyone who could do a 50 minute presentation on writing
> Catalyst applications? Perl, represent!

I'm building a webapp with the catalyst framework. I generally like the
ideas. But I wouldn't recommend it to others as a serious framework,
because it is still too raw.

It is very lacking in documentation. It is also a quickly moving target,
with new plugins regularly deprecating other plugins that are also very
new. I find that I need to get on irc to ask questions about how
something is supposed to work regularly. And then I often end up digging
through the source anyway. All in all, it is a much better system than
Maypole, and the leader of Catalyst, Sebastian Riedel, is ever-so-
slightly less annoying than Simon Cozens. Did I just say that in a
public forum? I've got to watch that shit.

The catalyst team is very gung-ho, cranking out code at great rates, and
excited about reclaiming the ground that Perl lost to Ruby, due to Ruby-on-
Rails (which I don't particularly care for).

CGI::Application is a much more mature framework. It lacks some of the
application glue that catalyst gives you.

-Colin.

p.s. I'm starting to work on a SPUG talk on profiling and optimising
     Perl, with a side discussion about recursion vs. nonrecursion. We
     should set up a wiki page with a plan for future talks, so that I
     can choose a slot and have a deadline to motivate me into finishing
     the outline and slides.


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