[Boulder.pm] CGI::Ex experiences?

Dave Gray yargevad at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 07:59:13 PDT 2007


On 8/16/07, Jonathan Conway <rise at knavery.net> wrote:
> Looks like I'm going to be working on a project that's currently using
> CGI::Ex out here in Seattle and I thought I'd see if anyone on b.pm
> had used it.  I've got zero experience with it and I'm not sure I've
> even heard of its use in any other large production applications
> (several million users).
>
> In the long run we're going to be looking at some other frameworks -
> Catalyst, Maypole, Mason, TT and bOP have been mentioned as well as
> porting to another language, any suggestions for someone returning to
> Perl?  This is a system with minimal need for designer/coder
> separation of duties, but I do tend to prefer MVC-style
> structures. Overall I like Rails, but there are more than a few places
> where I think that community isn't quite pragmatic enough.

I've never used CGI::Ex or bOP, but I have used Catalyst with good
results (which I believe Maypole is an ancestor of), and Catalyst
defaults to using TT as its View rendering system, (can also use
Mason).

Dave


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