[cgiapp] Titanium first impressions

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Richard Jones wrote:

> I've been having a play with Titanium. As I understand it, it's just a class 
> that WebApp inherits instead of the traditional 'use base CGI::Application', 
> and just loads some useful modules (CAP::*), but doesn't include Dispatch, 
> Authentication, etc so we still have to do these manually? What's the 
> possibility of progressing Titanium to a position where the dispatcher is 
> integrated as default, as in Catalyst? Ditto session support and 
> authentication. I know some folks have their own individual preferences here, 
> but it would be nice to have an off-the-shelf implementation that could be 
> used by default.
>

I agree.

> Also the documented cgiapp-starter doesn't seem to exist anywhere - can't 
> even find it on the 'net.

Look on CPAN for Module::Starter::Plugin::CGIApp

> What's the situation here - is it intended to 
> follow?

It can be used currently but the new improved version with Titanium 
support is still sitting on my hard drive.  I will be releasing it very 
soon though.  I'm just dealing with a couple of fiddly last minute things.

-- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>