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

[Matt Pitts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Rolsky [mailto:autarch at urth.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 2:21 PM
> To: The elegant MVC web framework
> Subject: RE: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development
> 
> 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.

Thanks for the input...

VMs were considered as an option, but since the Windows folks aren't
Linux-savvy, this means even more systems I have to maintain, perl CPAN,
updates, etc. Not to mention the system resources used by the VM which
could be quite taxing on some of our developers' systems. For me, this
was the insane option.

In reality, two of the devs _are_ currently running the app on Linux, in
their $HOME on a shared DEV server, and using Samba to access their
$HOME from windows. This setup has its own issues that I won't go into.

Anyway, this is a long story, I'll stop ranting. My point was just that
there is no easy way to "just run" the Cat app in Windows.

v/r
-matt pitts