[Catalyst] Plugin conflict?

[Jim Spath]

Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:14:58PM -0400, Jim Spath wrote:
>> Compress::Deflate and Static::Simple seem to conflict with each other. 
>> The result of this is that CSS files don't get served properly.
> 
> Compress::* are deprecated; let your webserver do that.

We tried... but had problems building a version of lighttpd with 
compression built in.  We're currently awaiting the release of 1.5.0 and 
a new package for it.

> Consider CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb as an alternative to dh-make-perl or try
> 
> http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/

Very nice... these will make our sys admin happy!  :)

>> PS - On a side note, is it possible to change which plugins are loaded 
>> depending on whether Catalyst is launched from myapp_server.pl or 
>> myapp_fastcgi.pl?  This would be helpful...
> 
> in MyApp.pm
> 
> sub setup_plugins {
>   my ($class, $plugins_arrayref) = @_;
>   <do something based on $class->engine>
>   $class->next::method($plugins_arrayref);
> }

Perfect!  Thanks.  This will allow me to continue to use 
Compress::Deflate on production, but not on development, so I can run it 
command line.

- Jim