[Catalyst] [RFC] Catalyst::ConfigLoader -- load a config from various formats

[Matt S Trout]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:11:02PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 16:36 +0000, Matt S Trout wrote:
> > NO! Other apps might depend on the latest YAML. I'm not willing to break
> > them just to fix mine. We're talking about production quality deployments
> > here - just fixing a version is fine for a dev box but useless otherwise.
> 
> You don't run with specific fixed versions of CPAN modules on your
> production boxes?  I wouldn't do it any other way.  What do you do about
> apps that are written to specific versions of the Catalyst API?  They
> obviously require a specific version.  YAML and Class::DBI are just the
> tip of the ::Frozen iceberg here.

I don't always have the luxury of being the only person running code on
a given server. Maybe you do.

> If you really want multiple versions of the same module on one machine
> to work, that should be addressed as a core Perl feature.  You're not
> the first people to want it.

Go forth and address it then, and when the solution's (a) production
quality and (b) installed most places then I'll happily switch.

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