[Van-pm] January van.pm meeting

[James.Q.L]

catalyst looks really HOT! especially the discusstion on mailing list.

I am wondering if anyone here tried CGI::Application and Catalyst. It looks like CGI::Application
doesn't offer much feature except a simple framework to have many developers work together easily.
I am trying to learn CGI::Application and hope it is worth the time comparing to learning
Catalyst. 

James.

--- Alex Pavlovic <alex.pavlovic at taskforce-1.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Luke Closs wrote:
> >>Catalyst is already passe.  Jifty is what all the cool kids are using
> >>now (it's true - I asked them).
> 
> Jifty is tied to a specific templating system, if you want to use for example 
> TT, there is lot of hacking to be done to make this work. Even worse it uses 
> HTML::Mason which in my opinion is horrible way to do your presentation. But
> I guess if you are looking for something quick and dirty, then this might be 
> down your alley.
> 
> Not sure If I fully could understand you why is Catalyst passe ? Catalyst 
> development has been going strong and steady for quite some time, go onto 
> mailing lists or irc channel. It's far more flexible in my opinion then 
> jifty. It's not tied into anything specific. It comes with variety of 
> plugins, models and views to help you get things done in sensible manner. I 
> recently completed ajax based web application with catalyst using models I 
> wrote for it, and I am glad it was done in catalyst. Flow control / dispatch, 
> auth with acls, sessions were some of the things that were a breeze. 

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