Mailing List Archive: 4 vs 5

I'm about to start a pretty extensive project using Catalyst. The
number of users will be very small (< 10) for the next several months,
but they'll need to do "real" work. The question is, should I use
Catalyst 4 or Catalyst 5?

I'm leaning toward 5, but the decision rests on the answers to two
questions:

1) How stable is it? It's call "beta" but it seems like pretty
fundamental questions are still being answered.

2) What will the upgrade path look like? Will I end up recoding a
bunch of stuff anyway once 5 is officially released?

I'll be starting the project on the 18th (a week from this coming
Monday) if that makes any difference.

Any insights you have are appreciated!

- Alan

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Am 07.04.2005 um 18:56 schrieb Alan Humphrey:
> 1)?????? How stable is it?? It?s call ?beta? but it seems like pretty
> fundamental questions are still being answered.

The core is quite stable (imo), only tests and file uploads with apace
are actually broken.

Right now i wouldn't suggest usage for a "critical" app.
But that may change until next week.

>
> 2)?????? What will the upgrade path look like?? Will I end up recoding
> a bunch of stuff anyway once 5 is officially released?
>

The biggest difference is the new action syntax, from

MyApp->action( 'foo' => sub {} );

to

sub foo : Global {}

and stuff like that, people who already ported told me that it's no big
deal.

> I?ll be starting the project on the 18th (a week from this coming
> Monday) if that makes any difference.

Well, the release was planned for tomorrow.

But actually we are waiting for Christian Hansen, his mail address
is.... :P
He promised to finish a new test suite with a few hundred tests, so
it's worth waiting.

--
sebastian
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