On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Arthur Corliss <corl...@digitalmages.com> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Dave Rolsky wrote: > >> The idea that you couldn't learn the basics of Catalyst and get things >> running in the same time seems unlikely. >> >> Also, you haven't factored in all the time it's going to take you to add >> features and fix bugs already present/fixed in an existing tool. > > I have no interest in any possible outcome of this discussion, but I have to > throw out a small tangential comment: as someone who has to support a > Catalyst deployment I'd like to know if anyone here has unrolled the > ridiculously long list of dependencies necessary for Catalyst?! > > As a fellow dev I struggle often with trying to achieve the balance between > not reinventing the wheel and not including the wheel that has its own > tractor trailer attached towing a mobile factory. And as a fellow admin as > well I may have to err towards a framework that provides the core > functionality I need with the least number of moving parts.
Yep, that's why I didn't use Catalyst and would never suggest it to anyone... it's an IT nightmare. > Let the guy introduce another framework. None of the existing frameworks > are void of any sizeable Cons. Amen. -- Check out my LEGO blog at http://www.brickpile.com/ View my photos at http://flickr.com/photos/billward/ Follow me at http://twitter.com/williamward
