[Catalyst-dev] several instances of an app on a machine.

[Marcus Ramberg]

Hi.

I've been thinking about a feature I want to add to Catalyst-Devel so  
that
the created skeleton adds a new command to the script/ dir of apps

script/myapp.pl

Create an instance of Catalyst app installed somewhere in @INC

Make a directory structure like so:

myapp.conf
conf/apache-fastcgi.conf
conf/apache-modperl.conf
conf/lighttpd-fastcgi.conf
data/ - app specific data like a sqlite database or filecache to be  
stored here
root/ - automagically added to the apps template path, so that  
instances can override individual templates
script/server.pl - These should pretty much just proxy to the existing  
scripts
script/fastcgi.pl   so that they won't need to be upgraded.

It might also be sensible to do a simple change to Catalyst.pm in
Catalyst-Runtime:

Add a requires_instance() method to Catalyst.pm that will die with a  
message
about having to run myapp.pl to create a instance of the app if it's  
started
from the system instance or to set MYAPP_HOME in the case of modperl?

Thoughts/comments?

Marcus