[Catalyst-dev] Moose port progress report

[Mike Whitaker]

On 31 Mar 2008, at 15:39, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, John Napiorkowski wrote:
>
>> This would make a plugin I'm working on for monitoring/restarting  
>> the application a lot easier. I've had to do a lot of hacking just  
>> to simulate role stuff, so I am in favor of it.  However I think  
>> people who have a lot of existing plugins might feel nervious :)
>
> Personally, I'd like to see this work get be aggressive in its  
> breakage of old idioms, but have it released under a new namespace,  
> like Catalyst6.
>
> There's a lot of cruft in Catalyst worth excising, but at the same  
> time, I don't want a simple "cpan install Catalyst" to break my  
> apps horribly ;)

Could we perhaps have a combination of a) a deprecation cycle and b)  
an 'if your app breaks, set <this> config option'?
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Mike Whitaker - mike at altrion.org