In principle, I agree that exact duplication is to be avoided.

In practice, I don't do Catalyst because I refuse to install half of CPAN just to get it running, particularly given that, when you have over 200 dependencies1 involved, the odds are pretty high that the majority of them will not be actively used by any given Catalyst app. There are limits to how far you should bend over backwards in your attempts to avoid duplication.

 

1 "Catalyst now depends on Moose among other things, with a very long overall dependency change[sic]. How long? I downloaded Catalyst 5.8 along with all of it’s non-core Perl module dependencies. The result was over 250 modules, not counting the Catalyst modules themselves, or anything in the Test::* name space. Bleh."
- http://mark.stosberg.com/blog/2008/11/review-of-mojo-087-a-new-perl-web-framework.html

In reply to Re^2: Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows by dsheroh
in thread Modern Perl Programming Highs and Lows by derby

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