[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst vs Rails vs Django Cook off

[Jay K]

I find it interesting how people will grab one particular part of a  
post and completely disregard the rest.  I don't really care too much  
about this rather silly discussion, but ability to bludgeon doesn't  
make you correct and I feel the need to point that out.

Apache takes a request (string + other request information) and  
translates it to a specific action.  That may be showing an directory  
index,  serving up the contents of a file, or executing a particular  
bundle of code (via CGI or any number of other methods).  Depending  
on how it is configured, it can perform access control /  
authorization and numerous other bits of functionality.

That is what a dispatcher does.  There is no requirement that the  
thing a dispatcher decides to do is in one particular arbitrarily  
defined bundle of code.

Using apache as your only dispatcher may be out of fashion, or  
outmoded, or whatever you choose to call it, but that doesn't mean it  
isn't a dispatcher.

Point being that frameworks provide more than choosing what to do,  
and if you stop the comparison at that point, then you might as well  
include every web server in your comparison.

It was intended to point out one of the problems with the benchmark,  
using an extreme example.

I need to remember that subtlety has no place on mailing lists.

Jay


> Hmm, you’re right. I guess I’ll start writing my apps as lots of
> little CGI scripts so that I can use the Apache dispatching.
>
> No wait, this isn’t 1992 anymore.
> (Except for many PHP people who’re still stuck there.)
>
> Last I checked, Apache’s URI translation won’t route requests to
> particular methods within an app that’s launched from a single
> script, so no, Apache is not a dispatcher in the sense that
> Catalyst or RoR is.
>
> You can of course load your app *into* the webserver with
> mod_perl, in which case you can configure Apache to dispatch the
> URI to a particular method in your app; but I mentioned that as
> an exception in the previous mail anyway. I assumed that would be
> enough of a hint, but I guess I expected too much.
>
> Are we done splitting this hair now or do you need more
> clarification?
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>
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