Web frameworks and portability

neilwatson has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I'm designing a web application. I've been looking into frameworks. Catalyst and Mojolicious come to mind but, I'm open to other suggestions. However, I am concerned about portability. This application is to be packaged and sold. Given that most Perl based frameworks can involve CPAN installs how can I package the application up easily? How can I minimize the possible module version variations between my hosts and those of any customers, without having to ship an entire Perl distribution?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

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Re: Web frameworks and portability by davido (Cardinal) on Sep 01, 2012 at 03:30 UTC
It may be worth noting that Mojolicious has no external dependencies aside from Perl 5.10+. There are modules it will use if available, but it works out of the box without installing anything else. That can be to your advantage, given your planned application. By the way, have you considered providing your app as a SaaS instead? Then there's no distribution. Dave	[reply]
Re: Web frameworks and portability by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2012 at 00:10 UTC
how can I package the application up easily? PAR/PerlApp/CavaPackager/CitrusPerl without having to ship an entire Perl distribution? Ship an entire perl distribution, citrusperl makes it easy :)	[reply]