[cgiapp] Announce: CGI::Snapp::Dispatch V 1.00 etc, with PSGI support

[David Groskind]

Reading the email exchange below, it looks like CGI::Application has
stalled and one of the developers has forked the code.

There are enough differences with the forked version that I would stick
with CGI::App.



On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Ron Savage <ron at savage.net.au> wrote:

> Hi Brett
>
> On 13/04/12 01:34, B. Estrade wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:29:37PM +1000, Ron Savage wrote:
> >
> > Congratulations and nice work. I am sorry to be dense, but as long as
> > I've been following Snapp and as many of the docs that I seem to have
> > read, I am still trying to figure out exactly what Snapp gives us over
> > CAP.
> >
> > I ask because I am at the start of a major project that is making
> > critical use of CAP and CAP::Dispatch.  If I am going to switch, now's
> > the time, but I need to justify it to myself.
>
> A perfectly reasonable request.
>
> As I've hinted, with great restraint, in:
>
> https://metacpan.org/module/CGI::Snapp#Why-did-you-fork-CGI::Application-
>
> I been struggling with Mark Stosberg for years about timely releases of
> patches (mostly to CGI::Session). I have written a great deal of code
> and docs, some of which he withheld from release for more than a year.
>
> I eventually decided for re-write this code so as to free myself from
> that constraint. In other words, I wished to guarantee current and
> future support - by doing it myself - for my current and future projects.
>
> That does not mean I have to use CGI::Snapp for everything. In fact, I'm
> very tempted to start learning Mojo, but I wanted a safe and reliable
> alternative to be in place before I adopted something new, since the
> latter course would necessarily involve a learning curve.
>
> The other factor you - and everyone - should take into account is that
> CGI::App etc appear to be longer supported, in that bug fixing has stopped.
>
> CGI::Snapp etc bugs (if any!) will be of great concern to me and will be
> fixed ASAP.
>
> For such software technology, it's actually nice to have a choice.
>
> Choose wisely!
>
>
> --
> Ron Savage
> http://savage.net.au/
> Ph: 0421 920 622
>
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