[cgiapp] is this list still active?

[jerry]

On 11/20/2014 06:47, Richard Jones wrote:
> On 20/11/2014 14:35, Bill McCormick wrote:
>> OK .. It's been some time since I've had to to much Perl/web
>> development. I last worked with C:A over 10 years ago, so I'm just
>> coming back to what I know. Sounds like I need to take a look at 
>> Dancer.
>>
> Yeah, Dancer2 is great, as is Web::Simple if you just want a "quick 
> and
> easy way to build simple web applications". Catalyst is recommended 
> for
> heavy-lifting. Dancer2 somewhere in between, though lots of overlap. 
> Not
> tried Mojo or CGI::Snapp to any extent myself so can't comment. 
> CGI::App
> still works of course but is way behind the curve now.

*** That put me in a quandary.  In 2006, I started building an 
application
to help with my business.  At first, I just used CGI.pm, and built my 
own
state-driven system for moving from page to page.  Then I discovered 
frameworks.
I tried Catalyst, and it was very slick when you used their canned 
pages.
But there was a little too much "magic" for my taste.  I wasn't having 
a
good feel for what was going on behind the curtain.  And as easy as it 
was
to set up a canned web page, that's how hard it was to do something 
different.
Especially debugging.  Big learning curve.

    So I settled on cgiapp. Just enough magic to make my life easy.  My 
app
has grown quite large, and it would be painful to recode it.

                              - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry at tr2.com )