[cgiapp] Re: Shipwright review

[Mark Stosberg]

> Have you seen Best Practical's shipwright tool (http://blog.bestpractical.com/2008/02/shipwright-our.html)? 
>   Jesse mentioned it to me in passing. It seems to be targeting the  
> exact same problem (and given RT's list of dependencies, they have  
> motive to help address it).

I have seen it. Here's the review I posted on cpanrating:

The documentation is sparse and feels incomplete. For example, from the CPAN
listing you can't even see that it ships with a "shipwright" binary, because
there is no POD in it. The source code points you to Shipwright::Script, which
has no real documentation either. From there, you might try
"Shipwright::Script::Help", but the only documentation for that is: "shipwright
help COMMAND show help".

It appears that it would support additional backends besides SVN and SVK, but
Shipwright::Backend provides no documentation of the API for adding a new
backend.

I think Perl really needs this kind of packaging and deployment solution, and
I'm glad some people are working on it and releasing it as open source. This
one just doesn't feel ready yet. 

http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/Shipwright

    Mark