Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Duncan Garland wrote: > > >> ii) Is Mason still an active product? It's 5 years since it was released and >> there doesn't seem to be much traffic on the developers mailing list. Amazon >> adopted it in 2003. Do they still use it? >> > > Actually, Mason is more than 5 years old. I think the first public release > was in July of 1998, and it was in use at CMP Media before that. > > As far as active development, I'd say Mason has enough features at this > point that there's less pressure to do a lot of development, at least from > my perspective. However, we still fix bugs, add small features, etc. The > most recent release was May 28 of this year. I'd expect another one > sometime in the next month or two. > How come you're not coming out with something Rails-like? You have Mason and Alzabo, throw these two thing together with some glue(don't ask me how) and you got the newest, hippest, web 2.5 MVC framework to make all the coders swoon.
Seriously, in your opinion what would it take to get something like that going? I've tried both Jifty and Catalyst and I think Catalyst is the more mature of the two, but I don't understand their preference with Template Toolkit. Justin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users