Based on my experience with the catalyst framework so far, I think maybe we need a different kind of web hosting for perl web: perl friendly user mode linux / or xen linux "rootboxes".

Perl has a lot of cool stuff, but yes, it's a pain to install. It's especially a pain to install if you're not root. Has something to do with problems in Module::Build or something along those lines... I don't completely understand it, but I can fairly say that catalyst install as root is not too difficult. Not as root, painful.

Traditionally to be root you needed your own web server, but with the rise of uml/xen/paravirtualization, you can now have many "root" systems on a single box.

I think it would be cool to have, eg, perl catalyst hosting where everything is preconfigured and you can just start coding, similar to what you have now with php hosting for 5-10 dollars. Then perl could really compmete with php/ror.

Catalyst a really powerful framework but it is unnecessarily hard to configure and get up and running, in my opinion.

Just thinking out loud...

In reply to Re: Perl mindshare in web development by tphyahoo
in thread Perl mindshare in web development by gunzip

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