barryp writes "Check out the latest Linux Journal magazine (August 2005) for news of Maypole winning an Editor's Choice award for 2005. Not sure if this is the first time a Perl module has won one of these
Re:I wonder if a specific version recieved that aw
TeeJay on 2005-07-05T18:56:18
Maypole 2.09 is still in keeping with Simon Cozens goals, Sebastian made changes that were in keeping with Maypoles philosophy while maintainer but wanted to go in his own direction with or without maypole.
Both Simon and Sebastien have been pretty sucessful with their projects, 'Sri' has succeded with Catalyst which has obviously drained some of the Talent from Maypole but Maypole development is continuing and it is improving and evolving.
I think Maypole and Catalyst both have a lot of potential, Maypole has more maturity and the 2.x releases are all about polishing that with tests, documentations, plugins and succesful deployments. Maypole has many live sites running on it and all its users are very happy with it - which probably explains why there is less frenzy and excitement compared to other projects.Re:I wonder if a specific version recieved that aw
barryp on 2005-07-06T09:11:06
No... the award went to the Maypole module, not any specific version. In fact, I'd like to think that the award went to the whole Maypole community (with a little bit of glory rubbing off on the Catalyst people who helped get Maypole into the shape it is in). Either way, this is very good news for the greater Perl community, as a non-Perl specific technical magazine (who -- I believe -- are all big fans of Python) decides to give a software award to a Perl project.
