Recommendation for simple Web Frameworks

[Matt Sergeant]

Eden Cardim wrote:
>>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Wistow<simon at thegestalt.org>  writes:
>
>      Simon>  In short - I don't really need the CRUD stuff from a
>      Simon>  framework, I really just need the url based dispatch. I
>      Simon>  played around with Catalyst (which I'm familiar with from 6A)
>      Simon>  but it felt like it was a bit of a sledgehammer and that it
>      Simon>  was (not unreasonably) tied to an ORM.
>
> You got the wrong impression, Catalyst isn't tied to anything, it's just
> a plugglable/configurable http dispatcher, it's as simple as any of the
> other perl web frameworks in that regard. It does have a larger user
> base for testing/contribution/support, I'd say that's the main
> advantage.

But the dependencies list *is* much larger for Catalyst.

http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Dancer;perl=latest

vs

http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Catalyst::Runtime;perl=latest

Matt.


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