[Catalyst] [ANNOUNCE] Catalyst::Plugin::StackTrace

[Matt S Trout]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:12:29PM +0100, Johan Lindstr�m wrote:
> At 05:18 2005-12-31, Andy Grundman wrote:
> >I've pushed the first version of the StackTrace plugin to CPAN.
> >
> >Screenshot: http://www.hybridized.org/catalyst/stacktrace.png
> >
> >Download: 
> >http://pause.perl.org/incoming/Catalyst-Plugin-StackTrace-0.01.tar.gz
> 
> Very, very nice!
> 
> However, I had to foce install it because of a breaking test (the test 
> seems broken, not the module). I submitted an RT ticket on CPAN with the 
> details.
> 
> Ok, I haven't used it for that many minutes yet, but IMHO this 
> functionality is so useful and so central to Catalyst that it should be 
> promoted to core. Maybe when it has accumulated a few system-weeks of 
> deployment?

Maybe in the sense that Static::Simple is promoted to core - but not
embedded in the main code. Overriding the __DIE__ and __WARN__ sig handlers
is always potentially tricky, and if somebody's using an insane exception
system that needs to do so itself (or that doesn't like the interruption
to the exception process that StackTrace causes) it has to be trivial to
turn it off.

Plus StackTrace causes an additional overhead on every thrown exception, which
in exception-heavy code may be an additional performance hit.

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