On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Phil Carmody wrote: > --- On Tue, 2/22/11, Jonathan Swartz <swa...@pobox.com> wrote: >> I'm pleased to >> announce Mason 2, the first major version of Mason in ten >> years: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mason >> >> Mason is a templating framework for generating web pages >> and other dynamic content. Mason 2 has been rearchitected >> and reimplemented from the ground up, to take advantage of >> modern Perl technique and to correct long-standing feature >> and syntax inadequacies. More information at >> >> http://www.openswartz.com/2011/02/21/announcing-mason-2/ > > I hope my inability to access that is because it's got a slashdotting and > generating a lot of interest. >
That would be fantastic, but somewhat doubtful. More likely my blog server is underpowered. :) Try now? >> While Mason 1 was fairly mod_perl centric, Mason 2 connects >> with mod_perl (and other backends) via PSGI/Plack: >> >> http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mason::Plugin::PSGIHandler >> >> Give it a try and post feedback here or on the Mason >> mailing list (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users). > > A quicky - for someone who never used Mason 1, is it best to just pretend > Mason 1 didn't exist and jump into Mason 2? Definitely, in terms of using it. But most existing documentation, articles, etc. will be about Mason 1, so if you read any of that, it'll be helpful to know the differences. Jon