Quoting Jesse Erlbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I recently found interesting initiative, p5ee, which wants to be > > enterprise-approved perl, like j2ee is. > > They have list of CPAN modules they approve: > > http://www.officevision.com/pub/p5ee/component> s.html > > Maybe they should list modules they *don't* approve. It might be a > shorter list! > > Do they have marketing $$$ behind this idea? Without the bucks, J2EE > wouldn't exist. There is no Temple of the Enterprise Engineers to whom > to appeal for "approval". > > >From my brief glance, "P5EE" seems like YAPPO -- Yet Another Perl > Programming Opinion. Maybe we should have a new CPAN hierarchy -- > YAPPOx::, anybody?
For old experienced perl hacker like you, Jesse, p5ee initiative might look like that. You may know many good packages, and their authors, and don't need any guidance. But not for me. I am new in perl and CGI world. (worked on client/server DB apps in previous life). TIMTOWDI may be fun, but result may be "reinventing the wheeel". I rolled up my own SQL wrapper, too. What a waste of time! I cannot see how effort to create consisstent docs and select recommended modules which work good together could hurt. No, they do not have any marketing $$$. All they want to do is to help other web developers to get jobs in perl. Because there is common knowledge in management that projects *should* be done in java. Maybe I expressed p5ee as "pushy". They are not. Most of it, it is one guy, Stephen Adkins. Quichotic struggle? Maybe. What is wrong with it? Do we really need more than dozen template systems? DBI wrappers? How many shapes of wheels do we need? Even on bioperl web site was link to discussion: if you have questions how to write big modules in perl, use java. And it is not funny. I assume that you, Jesse, did not read through p5ee web site, and it was my mistake to present it as "approving" some modules. English is not my first language. maybe I should use "recommend" instead. Of course, I might be wrong, and p5ee might be wrong (it happend to me before). But my feeling is, PHP and python folks stick together. Do big perl hackers have such big egos they need each own solar system? Thank you for explaining how to use database to store parameters. It makes sense. And thank you for CGI::App package. Without it, one java-first programmer almost persuaded boss to convert our project into java. And he is sneaking in java anyway... -- Peter Masiar, --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
