[Catalyst] How do you talk about Catalyst in 25 minutes?

[Christopher H. Laco]

Jules Bean wrote:
> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> 
>>
>> I'll admit it. I'm impress by eye candy and clean css design. I like
>> that stuff. But if I wanted a completely solution, click once, run one
>> script and everything is generated out of the box eye candy solution, I
>> wouldn't use Catalyst.
> 
> 
> Let's be clear.
> 
> I'm not talking about altering Catalyst here.
> 
> I'm talking about building a Helper (and Catalyst has superb support for
> a very general notion of Helper which AFAIK is quite unique among its
> competition) which you can use to make CRUD.
> 
> And I'm further suggesting that we shouldn't be so narrow-minded as to
> think it would *only* be CRUD. If it can generally a sufficiently
> configurable, well-written, extensible CRUD framework that it is
> actually a useful basis for your next Catalyst App[*], then that is
> something pretty clever. Dare I say "Don't Repeat Yourself?".
> 
> 
>> I personally don't think that Catalyst should concern itself with the
>> WoW factor. It's not a competition with RoR and Django. The right tools
>> for the right job. That's just me. I would not want Catalyst to get
>> bloated down with fancy admin pages, and css, and eye candy. It's a
>> frmaework, not a final solution to anything.
> 
> 
> To emphasise: I'm not suggesting bloating Catalyst. I'm suggesting an
> (entirely optional) helper script which can *help* people generate
> CRUD-like interfaces, if that is part of their application.


OK. I understand. :-)

My only comment would be yes, let's build something like that as long as
it's not part of Catalyst dist itself.

In some respect , that is no more than just enhancing the DBIC/CDBI
scaffold helpers right?


> 
> Jules
> 
> [*] Not all Catalyst Apps need contain anything CRUD-like. Many do. It
> is the ones that do I'm trying to help.
> 
> 

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