[Catalyst] So, what do we want in the -next- book?

Robert Sedlacek rs at 474.at
Mon Apr 28 16:16:44 BST 2008


Ali M. wrote:
> i completly oppose another cookbook for catalyst
> 
> catalyst need an indepth book that describe its design!
> the first book was very much a learning by example book, which is
> close to a cookbook
> 
> and the main complain or the bad review where that, after reading the
> book, developers still didnt not understand how catalyst work (for
> exampl how subroutines attributes are used)
> 
> we need a book with diagrams that exlpain the different pieces of catalyst
> 
> a cookbook maybe be easier to write, but its not what i think is needed
> a cookbook is for people who already knows catalysts, this book trend
> will make catalyst a very exclusive framework only used by perl
> experts!

I'd rather like to see _that_ as a community-driven project, maybe on 
the wiki. There is much more in the Catalyst ecosystem than just core, 
and different people in the community are probably better at explaining 
different things.

-rs



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