I agree, if perl isn't good for mangling text then what is? The Catalsyt Devel code should be in a reasonable state for a volunteer to take it on should the itch need to be scratched badly enough.
On 20/08/2013, at 8:45 PM, Ynon Perek wrote: > Hi John and All, > > I like the templates idea - however I think chef is an overkill (not everyone > using catalyst know chef, and there's already a learning curve. Adding a new > technology may only make things harder on new users). > > IMHO the best option would be to have several project templates on github, > and a user can just git clone a starter. > > Problem here is the application name needs to be modified in the process > (which really appears everywhere). > > If we can work around that anyone will be able to write their own template > > -- > כותב הרצאות ? מדבר מול קהל ? הבלוג שלי לומד לדבר > (http://publicspeakr.blogspot.co.il) כתוב במיוחד בשבילך > > > On Monday, August 19, 2013 at 15:43, John Napiorkowski wrote: > >> Ynon, >> >> Yeah, the skeleton builder is showing its age a bit. I personally never use >> it, but I see the need for something like this. >> >> I've come to the conclusion that 'one starter to rule them all' isn't going >> to be very forward looking no matter what it looks like. I was pondering >> something were people could easily make templates and skel on say github and >> people could point some sort of cmd line tool at it and just use their >> favorite authors way of doing it. That way people could fork their favorite >> and tweak it a bit. We could even have a repo on github with a list of all >> the know templates that the commandline tools would read and make it >> straight up to generate a new project. >> >> On the other hand... maybe its silly to reinvent the wheel here. Isn't this >> just what Chef and Puppet do? Maybe we should just use that instead? I >> personally have no issue using Python or Ruby for something as simple as a >> project builder, and it would solve some issues. We'd even be able to make >> chef scripts to do stuff like set up common tables and all that (how many >> user/role tables have you made). >> >> Of course Puppet/Chef might seem like terrible overkill as well. Again, It >> would be nice to have a way for people to be able to easily create basic >> project templates and a little more, like setup mysql, etc. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> John >> >>> From: Ynon Perek <ynonpe...@gmail.com (mailto:ynonpe...@gmail.com)> >>> To: catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk (mailto:catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk) >>> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 3:21 PM >>> Subject: [Catalyst] Catalyst starter template >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> After working with catalyst for some time, I found catalyst.pl >>> (http://catalyst.pl) too minimalistic for my needs. >>> >>> So I created a small script called ctstarter.pl (http://ctstarter.pl) that >>> adds some features to the base template you get for a new project. >>> Currently it adds: >>> >>> 1. A starter DB and migrations (using DBIx::Class::Migration) >>> 2. Code and DB tables for managing users and roles (using >>> CatalystX::SimpleLogin) >>> 3. A Twitter Bootstrap web view with templates (using >>> Catalyst::Helper::View::Bootstrap) >>> 4. Two helper scripts: one to upgrade the DB and the other to reset admin >>> password. >>> >>> You can find the source and usage instructions here: >>> https://github.com/ynonp/ctstarter.pl >>> >>> Any feedbacks is appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ynon >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk (mailto:Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk) >>> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst >>> Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ >>> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk (mailto:Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk) >> Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst >> Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ >> Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
