[Catalyst] Migration from Class::DBI to DBIx::Class (with CDBICompat)

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:03:10AM +0100, Michele Beltrame wrote:
> Hi Matt!
> 
> On second thought I think I'll stick with Class::DBI (0.96) for the 
> moment, since I have a tight timeline for this project with the customer 
> and migration to DBIx::Class doesn't seem a straight path.

It's relatively trivial if you have your own Class::DBI classes - and I
don't use Loader so migration worked fine for our applications.

> The main problem I'm encountering is the lack of good documentation: 
> Catalyst PODs (i.e. Intro) still show Class::DBI in the examples, and 
> DBIx::Class documentation seems not at all on par with Class::DBI's.

It's not doing badly for a project whose first release was in August :)

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