Max, As far as I know it is not being developed any more. I don't even know if it's being maintained. The list is pretty quiet these days and I assume most have moved on to other frameworks or out of Perl entirely. My main app is based on CGI::App so I still use it, but don't do anything new with it - I moved to Dancer2 for new stuff. Catalyst always felt like overkill for the types of things I do, but once I got used to the D2 syntax I found it to be a very enjoyable experience. YMMV of course, but if you keep just framework-specific stuff in the D2 classes, most of your code is in your own classes anyway so is framework-independent. If you really like CGI::App maybe you could look at taking it over and modernising it? I imagine it would be quite a big task though. Ron Savage already did something similar by forking CGI::App to CGI::Snapp a few years ago but I don't know if he still maintains it.
On 11/08/2016 11:13, max.augsb...@gmx.de wrote: > Dear CGI Application Experts, > > I am a Newbie in Perl and Web Programming. I tested a little bit Dancer2, but > I liked CGI::Application from the design much much more because it feels for > me more perlish. > > But what me confuse a little bit is, that the last stable version is from the > year 2011. Please allow me a straight and honest question: Does it make sense > yet to learn CGI::Application or should I better go ahead to a modern > framework as Dancer2 although CGI::Application to me appeals much more? Is > CGI::Application still active and will there be new stable versions on CPAN > in the near future (the devel version that contains also one security bugfix > is more than one year old)? Or is CGI::Application over the many years simply > ready programmed so that only minor bugfixes are necessary? > > I really hope, that the wonderful CGI App has a future. I think this > framework has such a wonderful and specific design so that it really sets > itself apart from the "big modern" modern frameworks (Dancer2, Mojolicious, > Catalyst) which are all very similar and so that there is real need for it. > > Best wishes, > Max > > > > ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ > ## ## > ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## > ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## > ## ## > ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## > ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## > ## ## > ################################################################ > -- Richard Jones ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
