[Catalyst] Catalyst Selling Points

[Krzysztof Krzyżaniak]

Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> writes:

> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>
>> Yeah. It really is daunting. CPAN is Perls best attribute, and worst
>> curse IMHO. It brings flexibility and reusibility, but makes is a pita
>> the just download an app. I think a small part of the RoR success is the
>> fact that they don't have CPAN, and don't have very many places/things
>> to install to get up and running.
>
> They use gem.  Same idea.  At then end of the process, the thing
> works. Quite similar to Catalyst, but it doesn't seem to compile nearly as
> much stuff.
>
> Par is helpful for stuff like this (hit the 3 major platforms and you will
> cover most users).  RoR probably wont work out of the box on our Itanium2,

RoR is architecture 'all', and for example in debian, what you have in
i386 you have probably in ia64

> and I would be suprised to see pre-built modules for it.  But for x86_64
> and x86, and PPC, you need to hit linux, x86 windows, and OSX PPC.  That
> will likely cover most users.  If you include DBD::SQLite and a few other
> bits, people should be ready to go w/o compiling and doing some testing.

It still more than 60 modules to install.

> Cat-in-the-box is a great idea (and I hear the downloadable RoR is what
> makes Ruby so interesting, DL it and go, no assembly required).

Yes, it would be a sexy-thing.

  eloy
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