Hi, Low ball coming in. There's a story on slashdot.org today about how the BBC has reinvented catalyst calling it "Perl on Rails" which is actually being used in the BBC now they say. I'm mentioning it here since it comes at a bad time what with the catalystframework domain being locked up and the BBC person seems to be giving wierd reasons for saying Catalyst or other perl MVC frameworks were unusable, see below.
Here is a comment from the author on the BBC page http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2007/11/perl_on_rails.shtml FYI. Matt Rosin # At 12:43 PM on 01 Dec 2007, Duncan Robertson wrote: Just thought I should clarify a few things, that maybe answer some of the questions above. 1. We actually started using Ruby on Rails a few years ago. 2. As Tom said, we use it for most of our internal projects (we've also used camping), as well as using standalone Ruby, Python and Perl apps for other stuff. 3. We like Ruby on Rails and although there were other frameworks to choose from (we tried many) Rails was the one that stood out, this is likely because Ruby is such a nice language to hack with. 3. :Dave: and others, On the live environment we were told at the time we had Perl 5.6, and a few BBC approved perl modules. Nothing more! So that meant that catalyst a other solutions were out. 4. The current framework attempts to draw all the bits from RoR we like, then extended to be more suitable to the BBC environment. For example, we needed to expose any SQL queries we would make so they could be vetted by DBA's for optimization. This made using an existing ORM more difficult so we had to craft slightly different solution. :Steve: It does integrate with barley and also baresque (the new version) Complain about this post Post a complaint Please note Name and E-mail are required. Contact details Name Required E-mail Required Complaint _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
