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

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Thu Feb 19 19:20:35 GMT 2009


On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Matt Pitts wrote:

> I myself am currently trying to support multiple developers (content &
> perl) working on a Catalyst app from Windows desktops and it's been a
> bit of a process. Cygwin seems to be providing the best solution right
> now, but Cgywin Perl fork()ing breaks frequently for me in Vista, so no
> HTTP::Prefork, which makes development much, much slower.

Getting _way_ off-topic, but if your target environment is Linux, this is 
insane. VMWare is easy to set up and would let your Windows developer run 
the app in something much closer to its target environment.


-dave

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