[Catalyst] Is Catalyst what I want?

[Krzysztof Krzyżaniak]

"Hermida, Leandro" <Leandro.Hermida at fmi.ch> writes:

> Hello,
>
>>
>> I'd never used TT, so you might be even more at home.
>>
>
> I have been trying to decide what is the best 'View' to use with
> Catalyst and it is so difficult to get an up-to-date comparison that I
> can understand of the main views available for Perl (TT, Mason,
> others?).  
>
> I know this is a loaded question also, but I would like to ask the
> Catalyst users out there as to what 'View' are you using?

TT. Mostly beacuse I have access to catalyst context here. I've tried to
use ClearSilver but it was too simple for me (almost every controller
needed additional 10-20 lines of code).

> I need something that is powerful, comprehensive, flexible and capable
> of generating highly dynamic database-centic web pages whose
> display/presentation can be controlled by meta data also in the
> database.  Being very new to the approach I see in systems like TT and
> Mason I guess I have to say I feel awkward because they seem to use the
> approach of embedding dynamic pseudocode into static HTML versus what I
> am used which is to use all Perl code to build the dynamic HTML in a
> string and then injecting it into the dynamic container areas I have
> defined in my app HTML template.

so ClearSilver would be probably good for you.

  eloy
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