On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 11:36:21 -0400 , Mark Haney wrote: > On 06/04/2012 09:57 AM, Chris Nehren wrote: > > > > >Erg. CGI.pm is a terrible idea--runtime string eval and all that > >silliness. Please investigate one of the lighter Plack/PSGI frameworks > >like Dancer and Web::Simple. Really, mod_perl is the wrong tool for the > >job here. It's for writing Apache modules with Perl. This means things > >like altering request flow, authentication, and the like--not Web apps. > > > > Okay, you've talked me into it. What's the learning curve for > Dancer? Or Web::Simple?
Both aim to be easy to learn, at least when compared to larger frameworks like Catalyst. Dancer uses a DSL (which is inspired by Sinatra, IIRC), whereas Web::Simple uses nested closures. Another lighter, simpler framework that my tired brain forgot is Mojo. Take a look at all three, give them all a try, and see which one fits best. > How hard is it to convert existing CGI.pm code into the framework? That much I'm not sure about, as I stopped writing CGI.pm code about ten years ago. There's #dancer, #web-simple, and #mojo on irc.perl.org if you have questions not covered in the documentation or if you want realtime guidance. -- Chris Nehren | Coder, Sysadmin, Masochist Shadowcat Systems Ltd. | http://shadowcat.co.uk/
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