Mark,
CGI::Application::Dispatch::Server was released in Summer of '07, in part
because CGI::Application::Server didn't have dispatching support.
But soon after, in the fall, CGI::Application::Server was released, which
supports both dispatched and "regular" CGI::App entry points.
In reviewing the projects today, it seems likes CGI::Application::Server seems
to cover all the bases. Is there any reason not to combine efforts and focus on
just CGI::Application::Server ?
As far as I can tell ::Dispatch::Server doesn't seem to offer much additional
functionality, or a significantly different API.
Having both will certainly be confusing some new users now due to the similarity.
At a minimum, at least of them should document its differences and benefits over the other.
I fully agree here. The impression I got is that since there is a
CGI::Application::Dispatch::Server, then I must use that if I use CAD.
It's been a while since I looked at either closely, so I just looked at
the source and here are my first opinions of what would need to be done
to CA::Server to handle the way that I was using CAD::Server.
- Need a way to specify parameters to dispatch()
- Both handle output capturing different. Is one better than the other?
- The order in which static files is served is different.
I set up my apps so that / is dispatched, but /static maps to static
files. Looking at CA::Server, it does not appear that this would be
possible currently because it would always try and dispatch. In
CAD::Server it tries to serve files staticly first before sending to
dispatch. I think the best solution would be to specify a way to mark
an entry point in the CA::Server config to specify static content. Then
I could do something like this:
$server->entry_points({
'/' => 'My::App::Dispatch',
'/static' => undef, # or maybe even pass a directory path to
override document_root
});
Other than these points the code looks to be basically the same. I'd
like to see them combined.
Regards,
Bradley C Bailey
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