[Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development

[Matt Pitts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cosimo Streppone [mailto:cosimo at streppone.it]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:30 AM
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development
> 
> In data 19 februar 2009 alle ore 16:12:36, Matt Pitts
> <mpitts at a3its.com> ha scritto:
> 
> >> I think that the success of other languages, especially Python is
> also
> >> due to the fact that they support better Windows than Perl.
> >> [...]
> 
> > Sad to say, but I completely agree with this. It's quite ironic how
> the
> > drive of open source has only furthered the need for OS agnostic
> > software and platforms, which in turn, has actually made life harder
> for
> > things like Perl that have strong origins in *nix OSes.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> > I really, really want to be able to "just run" my Cat apps in
> Windows,
> > and I probably could get it going under ActiveState or Strawberry if
> I
> > stuck to it
> 
> Does that mean that you haven't tried?

I have, but I stopped working on CPAN installs in Strawberry when
Data::UUID was failing with a build error that I don't remember.

> > but I _need_ it to not be that hard. I'm sure I'm not the
> > only one.
> 
> It's _not_ that hard.
> Perl has been good in the Windows world for long.
> Strawberry has improved this a great deal.
> 
> Perl on Windows runs most of CPAN without problems.
> And yes, I sent my small amount of patches too, whenever
> it hurt me.

Yes, I need to be more proactive about it and figure out why it's not
working, maybe when I get some tuits.

> Perl fully supports building on MSVC from 6 to 2008,
> and Win32 GCC.

Thanks for the pointers. Talking about it makes me want to try and
figure it out again.

v/r
-matt