[Mpls-pm] Perl Geezer back with questions

[Dave Rolsky]

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, James Smith wrote:

> Rose::DB::Object
> Class::DBI

I would skip these two. Rose is not in very wide use, and CDBI is totally 
dead, having been replaced by DBIx::Class.

> PQuery

This is ingy ware, which means it is unlikely to ever be updated. Skip it.

If you're interested in DOM manipulation in Perl, check out HTML::DOM.

> CGI::Ajax

Bleah. You don't really need a separate module to do ajax, you just need a 
decent server-side framework that makes it easy to return different types 
of responses (HTML, JSON, etc).

Check out Catalyst::Action::REST.

> HTML::Prototype

Prototype.js is a giant piece of shit, stay away! Jquery is quite nice. 
You should also check out JSAN (http://openjsan.org), which is an attempt 
to do for JS from CPAN does for Perl. Unfortunately, it hasn't seen a huge 
amount of uptake.

> CGI::JSONRPC

Again, unnecessary if you're using Catalyst or any decent web framework.


In general, I'd suggest looking at the last release date on a module. 
You're picking stuff that hasn't been touched in years in some cases. That 
either means the module is perfect, or that nobody gives a shit about it. 
It's more likely to be the latter.


-dave

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