I've created a new project on SourceForge called Matchstick. From the project description:
The goal of Matchstick is to create a framework for the development of high-quality large-scale Apache/mod_perl applications. Projects which use Matchstick will be easier to administrate, from installation to configuration to upgrade.
A more elaborate project description was posted on the Krang mailing-list, back before Perrin Harkins came up with a better name:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5943135&forum_id=38937
The short version is that Matchstick aims to take everything from Krang that isn't specific to creating a content-management system and repackage it for reuse. That means build, installation, upgrade, startup, shutdown, documentation, testing, etc.
Take a look and come join the project mailing-list if you'd like to get involved:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/matchstick-development
-sam
Hopefully ideas should cross-polinate, and allow developers to pick the framework that works best with their project and development methods.
Sebastian Riedel is working on Catalyst, which is close relative to Maypole 2 but is diverging in direction aiming at outdoing the j2ee and ruby MVC frameworks.
Re:this is good for maypole and others
samtregar on 2004-11-24T20:28:39
It could be that this could be useful for Maypole, assuming Maypole-based dev environments aren't already easy to build, install, upgrade and control. Core matchstick (probably) won't have any of the stuff that Maypole provides, although an add-on with CGI::Application and HTML::Template baked-in is definitely planned. I'm sure there's room for a Maypole add-on too.-sam
