[Dbix-class] Re: Versioned Cluelessness

[Tobias Kremer]

On 28.07.2008, at 04:01, Christopher Laco wrote:
> is not an appropriate answer for a new user or Catalyst or DBIC.  
> It's an attitude. Why isn't that part of dbicadmin? Why doesn't Cat  
> roll that into script/? Why doesn't a fresh Cat app automatically  
> create MyApp::Schema, or at least make it easiser to do so?
> Look, I think DBIC and Cat are awesome things (God Bless Chained),  
> but they're far from new-user friendly and they could use a  
> substantial amount of glue and gloss to fill in the holes. The real  
> question is whether that can happen, or we get mired in debate about  
> 'they can just download 5 other things to do the same thing'

christopher++

Freedom of choice is a good thing, but the variety of choices nowadays  
is starting to seriously hinder people. Even outside Perl-world.  
People have so many things to choose from (and often quite a bit to  
lose if they choose the wrong thing) that they become paralyzed and  
unconfident. Often, more is less:

http://www.amazon.com/Paradox-Choice-More-Less-P-S/dp/0060005696
http://blog.ted.com/2006/09/paradox_of_choi.php

--Tobias