Hi Everyone, I have semi-recently been working on a port of Koha to the Catalyst framework. I started right after school was out and didn¹t get a chance to spend much time working on it. I am taking my last class this summer and will be done in August and would like to pick my work back up on this port. What I would like to do is solicit opinions for what I could do as a proof of concept. I started work on re-writing notices when it occurred to me that this may not be something that anyone is interested in seeing.
For those of you that don't know Catalyst is an MVC based framework written in perl. I believe that moving Koha to Catalyst would not only clean up the codebase but also help with the logical flow of code. I know when I first started developing for Koha the two most daunting tasks were navigating the codebase, and figuring out what pointed where. I am not suggesting that we all jump on a giant rebase project right now, but I would like to look into it and get opinions. Catalyst has a very active development community and seems to be very well supported. It already has support for Template Toolkit, Apache Solr, Plack, and a whole lot more. If you want to find out what is supported (which I encourage) you can hit up their website at http://www.catalystframework.org/. You can also find my latest work at: https://github.com/libsysguy/koha-catalyst. It is obviously not complete but it will run and give you a basic idea of the code structure. Let me know your thoughts and ideas, I'm excited to hear what you have to say (Even if it is "Elliott you've lost your mind"). All the Best, Elliott Davis
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