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Catalyst MVC Web Framework 5.00 Released

posted by ziggy on 2005.04.19 8:49   

Andy Grundman writes "The Catalyst development team is proud to announce the release of Catalyst version 5. Catalyst is an "Elegant MVC Web Application Framework", which means it provides an easy-to-use API for gluing together database models (Class::DBI), web templates (Template Toolkit, Mason), and your custom web actions/controllers and running it all on your web server. Catalyst borrows heavily from systems like Ruby On Rails and Maypole. The key concepts are DRY (don't repeat yourself) and Lego Architecture (reusable components).

The Catalyst 5 distribution is available via CPAN and you can visit the Catalyst web site at catalyst.perl.org for more information."

• Silly but important question... (Score:1)

  by hsmyers (1366)

  Since this is obviously too new for ppm, does anyone know if this has non-perl elements that would have to be compilied? If it's straight perl then I can go ahead and do the usual drill with no problems. --hsm
  • Re:Silly but important question... (Score:1)

    by sri (5109)

    Catalyst itself is pure Perl.
    • Re:Silly but important question... (Score:1)

      by hsmyers (1366)

      Thanks for the update. I was able to involve the gang at Perl Monks and we came to the same conclusion---you're fine with Catalyst itself although you may be bitten by some of it's dependancies. While I've yet to bite the bullet, I'm hoping that either I've already got the better know XS based depandants or ppm can suck them down as needed. --hsm