[Catalyst] RE: Catalyst Digest, Vol 11, Issue 90

[Hicks, Robert]

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> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:26:30 +0100
> From: Sebastian Riedel <sri at oook.de>
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Config for Catalyst
> To: The elegant MVC web framework <catalyst at lists.rawmode.org>
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> 26.01.2006 14:23 Hicks, Robert:
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> > Since TT uses AppConfig I would vote for that one since it would
> > remove
> > a module dependency (YAML + Spiffy) and it is already needed by TT
> > anyway.
> >
> > That should be a consideration when you are building on "best of
> > breed"
> > tools. "What are they using already". Too many dependencies can be
> > a bad
> > thing IMO.
> 
> Have you looked at our current dependencies? :)
> 
> Btw. Recent tests showed that installing Catalyst (with prereqs) on a
> vanilla unix using CPANPLUS works flawless without a single failure!
> 
> 
> --
> Sebastian

Vanilla Unix means nothing to me. I am on Windows boxes most of the
time. I was actually thinking something else when I wrote dependencies.
What I meant was why "another" config format when TT already uses
AppConfig and so you can get rid of the YAML issue altogether.

Robert